Landscape: Lens
2019 - 2020
Landscape: Lens turns a glance into a bodily performance.
Imaginary landscapes constructed from anatomical imagery of the ocular system—such as the optic nerve, vitreous body, and retina—are printed on mirrors. As viewers shift their gaze between these images and their reflections, their eye muscles subtly contract and relax. By triggering this subtle movement, the work functions as a lens, making the moment of observation physically perceptible.
Landscape: Lens extends my ongoing inquiry into aesthetic experience and the act of seeing by examining the corporeal mechanisms that underlie vision. This line of inquiry investigates how sensory systems shape perception and condition the status of entities.
To learn more, please refer to Gaze - 2 1/2 - Landscape: Lens - On Observation.
Imaginary landscapes constructed from anatomical imagery of the ocular system—such as the optic nerve, vitreous body, and retina—are printed on mirrors. As viewers shift their gaze between these images and their reflections, their eye muscles subtly contract and relax. By triggering this subtle movement, the work functions as a lens, making the moment of observation physically perceptible.
Landscape: Lens extends my ongoing inquiry into aesthetic experience and the act of seeing by examining the corporeal mechanisms that underlie vision. This line of inquiry investigates how sensory systems shape perception and condition the status of entities.