October- December 2012
Sight
Materials: Wood and Fresnel Lenses
This work is site-specific in nature, affected by and responding to its immediate environment. It is based on the way that the human brain perceives and interprets visual images. It was made specifically for the ‘Encounter’ exhibition and was designed to change over the course of the exhibition. During daylight, an image of the environment directly outside the gallery space is projected through a series of lenses, rotating the image upside down. The image is in turn projected through another lens which rotates the image the right way up again. This corresponds closely to the way in which human visual perception works, with the eyes receiving an image upside down and the brain correcting the image. In the absence of daylight, the process changes. Due to the highly reflective nature of the window, a reflection of the environment inside the gallery space is projected, juxtaposed with traces of external lights. Additionally, the third lens creates a fictional sphere in which the image is encased. This is created by Gombrich’s’ etcetera’ principle, a state when the brain is tricked into seeing something which does not exist.
Sight was displayed as part of the Encounter exhibition and the IADT Graduate Exhibition 2013. It changed dramatically depending on the context.
Photographic Documentation:
IADT Graduate Exhibition context
Cormac O'Donnell 