Extraordinary facts relating to the vision of colours

Plexiglass phoropter with red and cyan lenses. Looking through each color allows viewers to see only one layer of information at a time.

Three rubber mice inside a copy of H.G. Wells' "The Country of the Blind," book cover designed by the artist with a cyan and red 3D image

Examples of simulated mouse and human vision.

Poser with overlapping red and cyan layers.

View through the red lens of the phoropter, revealing the cyan text layer.

View through the cyan lens of the phoropter, revealing the red text layer.

Extraordinary Facts Relating to the Vision of Colours

2012

A two-color viewer filters the layers of a cyan and red poster, revealing texts about human and mouse vision and undermining the rhetoric of human superiority.

Plexiglass phoropter with red and cyan lenses, inkjet print, surgical stand, book "The Country of the Blind (and other short stories)" by H.G. Wells (In the Country of the Blind, is the one-eyed man really king?), three rubber mice. Mouse vision images courtesy of http://zoomorph.net.

MARIA LUX

Extraordinary Facts Relating to the Vision of Colours