Oculus
Oculus was one my earliest performance pieces, done during a returning visit to my family home during the winter of 2015 while attending the San Francisco Art Institute. This work involved me spending a full day in a collaged sculptural mask/helmet that only allowed me to see the world through the camera lens of an iPhone 5c.
During the course of the performance I focused on visiting local sites frequented throughout my youth including neighborhood parks, local hiking trails, and shopping districts as a way to re-examine landscapes I’ve built up in my memories and experienced physically in my past. Detached from the reality of these spaces via my forced perspective and limited scope of view, the camera began to frame the landscape in ways that felt uniquely referential and strange. A sensation I felt mirrored the voyeuristic relationship we have towards our own histories, culture origins, and built environments.
