See
we have eyes to see but do not see

Rubén Gutierrez recently made a postcard artwork where he appropriated the text "They have eyes to see but do not see", taken from Ezekiel 12:2. I have re-appropriated this text, slightly adapting it to read "we have eyes to see but do not see". Where Gutierrez’s text is printed in black on white, in my artwork the words are written in white on white, which places emphasis on the idea of blindness, because at first glance it would appear that there is nothing to see, that it is a void that one is looking into. This is an ironic interpretation of ‘the medium is the message’. It raises intriguing questions, on many levels, "what are we not seeing?" and "just how long have we not been seeing it ?". In the original quotation from the bible it is God who is speaking, but changing they to we, is a device, which implicates and includes myself, as well as the viewer. In this way this piece plays with the viewer’s eye and mind.