Holding Gaze: Cyanotype with a stare (4)

Holding Gaze is a series of cyanotype prints built around a simple inversion. We move through the world looking at things with the comfortable passivity of the admirer at best, and the mindless inattention of habit at worst. But what if the thing being looked at has its own eyes, its own intent, and has been returning the gaze all along with considerably more attention than we brought to the looking.

The decorative becomes animate, the familiar becomes strange, and you are no longer the one doing the looking.