The Doors Of Perception Are Never Fully Open
Aldous Huxley was obsessed with perception because he had an eye ailment that nearly made him blind. It was only after years of all kinds of medical intervention that he discovered a man who had a program of eye exercises and was adamantly against wearing glasses. Huxley benefited so much from this treatment his vision returned and he wrote a book called The Art of Seeing. I read this book when I was in high school during my Aldous Huxley obsession and it made a big impression on me. Then of course I read The Doors of Perception about his experiments taking mescaline. This piece is about seeing, and how human perception is flawed, althought we forget this and all kinds of trouble is caused. Of course this is a radically messed up example of bad vision. It originally was going to be called Two Elements Broken and Badly Reassembled and Seen Simultaneously. It was supposed to be alternating pink and yellow bands, but after I did the yellow part, I decided to keep the white primer, which is not as white as the titanium white in the yellow gradient. What is weird is how the contrast between these two whites makes the brighter white so vibrant - almost blinding. Again, how colors react next to each other is very interesting. Four pieces hung individually.
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