The Persistent Gaze

The Persistent Gaze
2013 - 2017

On the project The Persistent Gaze, I spent four years taking the same shot of the same window onto a portion of sea and sky, season by season. It was an attempt to curb the eye so that obsessive repetition of the frame makes the viewer concentrate on the minute changes to a continually evolving horizon. The window becomes a spur to reflecting on light and hence on the molecular basis of photography. But to heighten the concept I deliberately only chose photos without a horizon line which would tend to draw the gaze back to reality. Dissolving the form (of the line) lets me shift the attention onto the changing light effects.