Mind’s Eye

Mind’s Eye

This piece is not an image of something.
It is the moment something begins to appear.

There is no object here to recognize.
Only the act of recognition itself.

At the center, a form gathers.
Not fully seen. Not fully known.
It holds just enough structure to suggest focus—
the way a thought begins to take shape before it becomes clear.

Around it, everything moves.
Color drags across itself.
Impressions overlap.
What we see is not a single image,
but the accumulation of attempts to see.

This is how the mind works.

We do not receive perfect pictures.
We assemble them—
from memory, from expectation, from fragments of experience.

The eye in this piece is not literal.
It is not an object.
It is a function.

It is the place where perception organizes itself.

The surrounding field resists clarity.
It breaks form apart as quickly as it tries to build it.
There is tension between what wants to resolve
and what refuses to be fixed.

This is where the work lives.

Not in what is seen,
but in the instability of seeing.

Within this instability, something real emerges—
not as an object,
but as an event.

A moment of awareness.

A brief alignment between the viewer and the unseen.

This is the mind’s eye.

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