Watercolour, gouache, pencil and ink on watercolour paper, with digital reflection.
Initially intended to be used as a scientific tool, the kaleidoscope (observer of beautiful forms) permits dynamic vision. The apparatus, a cylinder of mirrors, transmutes asymmetric reality into a mathematical utopia of symmetrically flowering structures. In this way we simulate the view of the world as seen through the compound eyes of insects, which are typically hexagonal in cross section.
I am interested in this device for its ability to alter that which is seen, to look, to examine and to facilitate an expansion of complexity.
©ADG2012
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