Your fellow Salve students are all around you, staring at their computer screens, typing away, pointing and clicking. Some are conducting research, some are proofreading a paper and others are finishing a PowerPoint presentation. This may seem like a familiar scene to you.

Barbara Shamblin’s show, Image and Memory: Photographs of Italy, currently on display at the Newport Art Museum, is not about clear sight. Her work evokes personal perception.

“‘Why are they blurry?’ I keep getting this over and over again,” the artist said, at the Gallery Talk she gave on Oct. 13.

I touched it and it was like a bolt of lightning went through me. I just knew,” explained a close work associate of Editor-in-Chief of SELF magazine, Lucy S. Danziger. “If your breasts usually feel like a bag of grapes, this felt like a pebble. It was that hard.