Visual Studies / 002

Signs, Gaze & Simulation

Melbourne and New York City

2022–2024

7 images

Psychic City

The eye as a conduit between perception and the city.

Midtown, New York City.

Psychic City follows eyes across bodies, signs, patches, murals and spiritual symbols. Repetition turns the eye from an organ into a charged urban motif.

Pierre and Josh in Washington Square Park, New York City.

Each appearance carries a different relation to vision. Some eyes look back; others promise surveillance, protection, intuition or access to what remains hidden. The photographs do not collapse these meanings into one symbol. They ask why the eye so readily gathers ideas about consciousness and power.

Midtown, New York City.

The series maps the distance between biological sight, the social exchange of the gaze and the desire to perceive beyond surfaces. In the city, looking is never one-directional. To see is also to enter a field in which one may be seen.

Midtown, New York City.
Midtown, New York City.
Midtown, New York City.
Times Square, New York City.