My primary goal in the following research is to examine my own meditative motion of investigation of a quiet searching that perpetuates itself and is its own reason for being. The exploration of an enigma: a visual artist on the cusp of losing my sight and photography as a vehicle to carve out an artistic and a personal identity. This thesis discusses and converges the above. This is done through incorporating two distinct voices, a documentary voice (academic) which is interwoven with a personal poetic voice (phenomenological)