Visual Studies / 003

Body & Gesture

New York City

2023–2024

Eye Contact

Exploring the balance of trust, power, and vulnerability in human eye interactions.

Times Square.

Eye Contact gathers moments in which eyes are approached, covered, tended to or held within another person’s attention. The work begins with a sensitive organ, then follows the social relation that forms around it.

These encounters make vision physical. Hands near the eye can signal care, examination, control or risk. The person being touched may appear trusting, vulnerable or self-possessed, and the photographs resist deciding too quickly which.

By repeating ocular contact across unrelated scenes, the series treats seeing as relational rather than private. The eye can connect or defend, reveal or withhold. Each image asks who controls the encounter and what becomes visible when looking itself enters the frame.

Briant Park, New York City. 2024.
Central Park, New York City. 2023.
Melbourne CBD, Swanston and Collins. 2024.
6th Avenue, Chelsea, New York City. 2024.
Melbourne. 2024.
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