Red Blue - Diptych - oil on canvas - 15in x 20in (x2) - 2010
This painting pair emphasizes the peripheral nature of our rod vision and its peripheral aspect of movement/change. When the lights are dimmed, you end up glancing back and forth between the paintings as your eyesight notices one area in the dark, and then the other, glancing over to one, having it disappear, noticing the other, glancing at it , having it disappear ...
Whereas we normally move our eyes in order to see, here, we see and then move our eyes. Juxtaposing our looking and seeing within our sight.
Whereas we normally move our eyes in order to see, here, we see and then move our eyes. Juxtaposing our looking and seeing within our sight.