Triple Vision (2022)
Color monoprint, graphite on handmade paper
6.5” x 9”

Triple Vision aims to investigate the memetic evolution of close looking. Who was the first person to ask you to look closely and did they tell you how? Who told them? If we followed this genealogical thread all the way back, where would it go? Would that initial close look be recognizable to us today?

Here, I've pulled three historical examples of artists drawing figures deep in their looking, each rendered by an anonymous draftsperson of the early Renaissance. Far from a representative sample, they instead serve as an opportunity to delaminate the act of looking, separating the gaze from its subject and separating the gazer from their attention by isolating and overlaying color monoprint layers.