Seen In Colour

Seen In Colour sits in the tension between clinical reality and lived experience. At its centre, the innermost square holds the person living with MS, their world fractured between colour and greyscale.

The second square shows black-and-white MRI scans of people living with MS. This reflects how the condition is often first encountered; through clinical images, diagnosis, lesions, uncertainty, fear and a shifting sense of identity.

The outer square moves into vibrant colour. Vivid MRI scans surrounded by flowers, suggest something more layered and complex. That life with MS is not only defined by lesions or loss, but also by adaptation, growth, and moments of unexpected beauty.

Outside the image, the text reads: “They saw her in black and white; she wanted to be seen in colour.” It speaks to how an MS diagnosis can flatten a person into symptoms and stigmas. Wanting to be seen “in colour” is a refusal of this. It is our insistence on being recognised as whole, complex and more than the diagnosis.

Overall, Seen In Colour does not deny the weight of this disease. Instead, it reframes it as a series of layers within the diagnostic journey, holding space for grief while also allowing creativity, identity and meaning to bloom alongside it.