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A conscious practice of observation questions the typical experience of a landscape image perceived by the eye. While an image of the eye symbolizes the organ from outside point of view, referring to the internal experience of sight a distancing effect is required

In many languages, there is a letter called eye. For an abstract letter to bear a name referring to something in the world would reverse the fundamental semantic order, unless that name exists beyond time.

آ   (high tide)
 In Farsi, “madd” symbol is a diacritic placed over “alef” (ا) the first letter of alphabet to indicate “ā” (آ). آب  “ābb” is translated as water. 

In Semitic scripts, including Phoenician, Hebrew‎, Aramaic, Syriac, and Arabic; the letter ع has a name derived from Proto-Semitic “ayn” translated as “eye”.

The sun is looking into the mirror at night

A small room size Camera Obscura, with 2 chairs and a projector inside, presents 2 channel moving images on two walls sides to the viewers. One is a video, projecting footages of the sun reflection on the earth in everyday life, and the other is the live upside-down reflection of the gallery. The black segments embodied within the video, would make the camera obscura effect much more visible.

The Heart

Fire on clay