The Blind Spot
This work is the starting point of an ongoing project about our blind spot. As we all have a blind spot regarding our relationships and interactions with people, I started to research my own blind spot.
As a photographer I find it interesting to research, because it has to do with the way we look as humans. All of us have physically a blind spot, in the back of our eyes, in the lens. There is a black spot which our brain fills in automatically.
I started building in my blind spot into my camera, because that is how I look as photographer, through my camera. From this trial and error phase, I started to cut out the spot, positive and negatives shapes, filming the spot, blowing it up until big proportions, using it rest material and placing spot on spot. Trying to find his shape and experimenting with moving it.
This ongoing project is a research in different stages, to find the shape, to research where my blind spot is located and to try to understand what is is about. It reflects the way I see the world.
Series 2020
Video “The Blind Spot” is about the blind spot being controlled by somebody else. And how does it relates itself to space? This video is part of the project.
Some images of the small expo about The Blind Spot.
Book with The Blind Spot.
Format 14,8 cm x 21 cm
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