Theme: Objects are not exhausted

Theme: Objects are not exhausted

Method: Explore the interelationships between my spectacles and other objects

Context:

• Ian Bogost - Definition of Ontology
• Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose
• John Keats - Ode to a Grecian Urn

Response:

I'm no more important than my glasses,in a spectacles centric world I ponder what is in orbit around my glasses: the voracious teeth of house keys, the claws of pen lids, a protective neoprene pouch, the heat and steam from freshly washed dishes or a piping hot cup of tea and be-lotioned hands that regularly leave their decorative fingerprint. Yes, all these things interact with my glasses, but primarily my spectacles interact with light; reflecting the light from my phone screen, my computer monitor or from the fluorescent lights overhead in the classroom. Not only reflecting, refracting light to a precise focus point, the lens is curved in a complementary version of my eye lens' astigmatism and myopia. The agency of spectacles is its generous gift of focussed light.

I took inspiration from Umberto Eco's character, the learned monk William of Baskerville, its 1327 and he uses the very latest wearable in the science of vision, an eyeglass.

I've taken the strongest ideas about these interactions and put them together with some mystical sounding music from Kevin MacLeod, to try and express the wonder and glories of the gift of clear vision.