This project began with an interest in the Truth. I questioned: How can an individual find out or know an absolute and/or universal truth (if it is at all possible)? I observed that every individual has one unique perspective and this perspective is always within a frame. This one perspective everyone has at all times, makes each person both equal and different to one another. However, a perspective can be flawed: it can be blocked by a physical object (for example a wall) or someone can be colourblind... One can be certain that they know the truth of a situation but maybe their perspective is flawed. The question is; is there an entity or a being that knows the whole Truth even though all perspectives on earth are limited in their capacity to see?
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Eye 1
Eye 2
I started my experimentation by taking photos of different kinds of perspectives. Some of these were human eyes, animal eyes and forms that look like eyes (for example a camera lens or an overhead dentist lamp). I wanted to capture the limits of someones vision, the frame of the image being the boundary that one cannot cross. Afterwards I created a simple animation with the eyes transitioning from one to the other, with the viewers eye always resting at the centre of the screen, symbolising the frame, the limit of a persons perspective. The second animation shows the different eyes within a grid, representing the limited field of vision we have as viewers. The endless space at the end of the animation brings into question a perspective without a frame, a curiosity, an unknown entity.
"Framed Perspective" animation
"Framed Perspective 2" animation