Only in the 20th century, artists started taking the study of perception in a more humane way. They were thinking about the eye as being an instrument, the whole body as being a visual instrument. That sort of gave way a little bit with Cartesianยญ - the "Cogito ergo sum" argument. It's not, "I think therefore I exist." It's, "I feel therefore I think therefore I exist."
Vik MunizI think pure light has something to do with actually seeing everything at once. It's kind of a nirvana of sorts.
Vik MunizWhen someone tells you itโs a grain of sand, thereโs a moment where your reality falls apart and you have to reconstruct it. You have to step back and ask what the image is and what it means.
Vik MunizIf you find an idea without form, please let me know because I would love to take a picture of it.
Vik MunizWhen you organize your work and look back at your entire production, it may feel like you're looking at a straight line, but in fact it's nothing like that. The work is very experimental and most of the time it develops like branches. I usually see a capillary, like a tree shape where there are... branches that sort of move because you're not tending to them.
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