Shadowlands: A Search for the Unseen
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Mok, Tori
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Jowsey, Sue
Denton, Andrew
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Auckland University of Technology
Abstract
Beneath the quotidian world is a parallel universe of dim and shapeshifting forms. They are easy to overlook, difficult to see, and mesmerising to behold — like black holes collapsing, pulling into themselves an infinity of lost fragments. Here, on a journey to challenge the perceptual limitations of my habituated ways of seeing, I have searched for the unseen and discovered visual failure. This work is a collection of the strange curiosities and souvenirs I have unearthed in flipping my world over, hunting for darkness, and wandering through the Shadowlands.Description
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Shadow, Unseen, Visual perception, Curiosity cabinet, Photography, Quotidian, The everyday, Practice-based research, Perceptual failure, Fragment, Installation, Speculative design, Conceptual art, Optical device, Overhead projection