Studio

falling into the phone looking away and seeing too much - seeing as self-definition - objects look back and their incoming gaze situates. in the space today - so interesting to see how previous works sit alongside the actual artefacts. seeing is never complete - especially when the subject is charged with danger or sexuality just spoke with a visiter to the space - asked him what he felt about the objects - the Dr Auzoux models - he couldn't look at them - he revealed he had a terminal illness we talked quietly for a while - his daughters collected him

James Elkins  - The Object Stares Back Seeing Bodies Our eyes are built to seek out complete figures - we instinctively repair fragments into wholes and search for continuous contours and closed curves. This phenomenon is called subjective contour completion. On a deeper level, subjective contour completion answers to a desire for wholeness over dissection and form over shapelessness. The night sky is such a shapeless thing. It is a chaos; it has no pictures,it does not represent any earthly forms. No border - no frame - no outlines - no up or down - no beginning or end - and for these reasons it is beautiful but intolerable to our eyes. To make sense we create from it - a tapestry of patterns and pictures, of mythical creatures, and geometric regions. The urge to make a continuous shape out of the pieces of our visual world runs very deep. When confronted with an unfamiliar object - we try to see something of ourselves in it - a reflection or an other, a doppelganger ...

chimera: 3] a thing which is hoped for but is illusory or impossible to achieve. 'the economic sovereignty you claim to defend is a chimera' an illusion or fabrication of the mind; especially: an unrealized dream < a fancy, a chimera in my brain troubles me. 4] an individual, organ, or part consisting of tissues of diverse genetic constitution.