My World Revolves Around You
Everything is in motion relative to something else, and no special frame of reference exists.
Perception, and the Fragility of Clarity
This sculpture operates as a meditation on perception—both biological and technological—and how fleeting moments of alignment shape our understanding of ourselves, each other, and the world. Using two marble skulls, the work enacts a visual rhythm of sync and dissonance.
Fitted with cameras that feed into wall-mounted monitors, the skulls present a mediated form of vision. The viewer sees not only the object itself, but also its point of view—a symbolic gesture toward empathy, technology, and the displacement of subjectivity.
As the skulls spin, their capacity to perceive clarity fluctuates. Synchronization allows them to "see" each other and the surrounding artwork clearly, while desynchronization renders the world indistinct. This oscillation reflects real-world dynamics of communication and consciousness: clarity and connection are rare, often momentary, and usually achieved only through delicate alignment.
From the viewer’s perspective, the experience is equally fragmented and shifting. They watch the sculpture directly—two white marble skulls rotating as blurs —and simultaneously witness each skull’s mediated vision on adjacent monitors. Depending on the moment, the screens show coherent glimpses of the painting or the opposing skull, or they dissolve into an abstract blur. The viewer is caught between these layers: seeing with their own eyes, watching the perspective of the skulls, and noting the difference between physical proximity and perceptual understanding.
This disjunction invites reflection on how our experiences are filtered, not only through our senses, but increasingly through technology. The viewer is not simply observing; they are implicated in the act of looking through and being looked at. They must piece together a whole from fragments, developing an awareness of the limitations of perception, both artificial and embodied.
The sculpture’s motor-driven choreography suggests an inevitability to these cycles: just as perception sharpens, it begins to blur again. In this way, the piece becomes an allegory for human understanding—not fixed, but conditional and constantly in flux. The use of classical materials and modern technology further underscores the tension between permanence and ephemerality, between material and mediated experience.
In its mechanical persistence, the work compels us to consider how much of what we perceive is shaped not by what we see, but how—and when—we see it.
Two people never see the exact same thing.
Technical Description
Two marble skulls face each other, each equipped with a camera that sends a live video feed to monitors nearby. The skulls are mounted on a shared axis and can spin via computer-controlled motors, sometimes in sync, sometimes not.
When they are spinning, the viewer sees two blurs.
The skulls' images of each other are blurred when spinning out of sync—neither skull can clearly "see" the other.
When they move in sync, their view sharpens. Behind one skull is a painting. Only in moments of perfect synchronization can Skull 2 see both the painting and Skull 1 with clarity.