eye

The eye - aided by instruments - can see the whole universe around it, and not just the present. As it looks out into space, the eye looks back in time, all the way to the beginning of the universe, the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), which is the inner surface of the sphere that is our universe, with the observing eye at its very centre.

E Pluribus Unum (project) 2017

Inside a Drawing (project) 2017

Cloud Helmet, (project) 2016

“They have always pressed the spectator into an active role in their work, even making “observer participation” a cornerstone of what they do...and it makes sense, it doesn’t really happen without the observer. They’ve consistently embraced technology, not for technology’s sake, but as a way of engaging the viewer, and alway’s very inventively.”
The Irish Times, 29 May 2013

“According to Oscar Wilde “Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder” but these artworks go even further: this time the art becomes the eye of the beholder.”
Pour la Science, January 2015

The marvelous world of vision holds secrets that the world’s top scientists have still not completely unravelled: how we construct a picture of the space around us from incomplete samples of information; how we process moving images at speed to calculate finely our relative position; how colour, movement and light all interact to provide visual clues to help us negotiate the world…