in progress...

Since the beginning of this project I was really interested in the way people perceive pictures because this process is not merely connected with vision and the function of the human eye (for which I found tons of information but the most comprehensive online resources turn out to be these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye , http://www.lifesci.sussex.ac.uk/home/George_Mather/Linked%20Pages/Physiol/The%20Eye.html and http://www.biologymad.com/resources/eye.swf ) but also has a lot to do with brain activity.Exactly this subject fascinated me because it combines science and art,facts and vision,function and fiction.However, I didn't wanted my project to deal with stiff science facts and ever since the beginning I was yearning to bring an element of interaction,experimental performance,pure physical or tactile quality to it.

For that reason,I was naturally drawn to books that deal with this subject in a bit more freer and frivolous way,books that are not just full of facts and boring graphics but visually intriguing ones full of experiments and test pieces.Some of these books included: Visual games by Franco Agostini,Illusion in Nature and Art by R.L. Gregory and E.H. Gombrich, Visible Signs by David Crow, Mapping Perception (Proboscis 2002) After casually looking at some of the images it turned out it was quite difficult to have a definite opinion on these pieces because ,despite their simplicity and clarity,behind them stood knowledge and logic.This made me realise that a piece of work which is bound to communicate a problem should derive from a full understanding of that problem and should not be based entirely on superficial or pretentious looks.Therefore,in my usual manner, I decided to examine the problem that I set myself in the brief, first by structurally dividing it into smaller parts.I split my research into groups of subjects,as follows: physical eye/brain connection in healthy people and people with diseases, experiments carried with those two groups, psychology of vision in adults and children, tests and devices for diagnosing eye dysfunctions and visual illusions.

At this stage I was entirely engulfed by all the facts I needed to get before starting to thnk about the actual final piece.