Perception Play

2025

Eyewear components and wire

Various dimensions, installed in a 22 x 30 feet area

Perception Play transforms eyewear components into kinetic sculptures, reflecting our fleeting thoughts and shifting emotions which shape the way we see the world. Through floating colors and shapes, the installation explores the awareness of something familiar in our peripheral vision coming into focus, becoming objects we can define. The sculptures make slow turns and cast color and moving shadows onto the floor and the wall as the viewers walk near them and stir the air. The viewer’s movement constantly changes the sculptures’ composition and, in turn, their surrounding environment.

The sculptures repurpose factory-reject components from eyewear production, including frames, temples, and silicone sleeves. New forms emerge through building upon the components’ manufactured forms, reflecting the commissioning brand’s precise engineering and refined designs. The sculptures utilize the material’s inherent characteristics: lightweight and strong titanium frames are the sculptures’ structural elements; the flexible acetate frames are pinched and distorted, now appearing to be baby-size frames that could grow into their full sizes. No screws or glues are used in the sculptures, as in the eyewear designs. Holes, loops, and ridges made for eyewear production are utilized as connecting points between the sculpture’s elements and wire structures.