I started off the first project by looking at Chris Keeney’ s double exposure photographs where he creates ghostly overlapping images. This made my look at the possibility of multiple images exposing onto the same surface, thereby coming up with my project called How Eyes Work. This was sparked by the realization that pinholes use one small lens to create an image. However, our eyes are effectively two lenses that merge two images into one comprehensible image in our brain. I then investigated into peripheral vision, as we are aware of not only what is directly in front of us, but what is around to the sides. I began to create a pinhole camera which had the ability to merge three different views, spanning 180 degrees. The camera had three separate pinholes, which all allowed light to expose curved paper around a tin at the back of the box. With panoramic composition paper, I loosely curved around the tin allowed the image to be distorted the correct amount.

 

I chose my subject matter to be largely in streets, because of the rigidity of the structures within the cityscape can easily be distorted. However, when I tried to use inside rooms and in a park, the structures were not obviously changed. To resolve my work, I looked at creating a box to show how the vision of my eyes overlap. To do this, I closed my right eye and measured how far I could see to the left, then the same with my left eye and my vision to the right. This box could then be measured and by rescaling my images, I presented four images at that exact size of visual overlap, below each other. Thereby, reinforcing to the viewer how our eyes have the capability to comprehend the world around us.