eye
In this series, I've embarked on a journey to trace my deep-rooted passion for observing the eyes. I feel that genuine communication transpires through the eyes. In a world where words and sounds inundate us, where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning, conventional forms of communication often fall short of satisfying my thirst for true connection with humans. It feels like random thoughts expressed aloud.
Through this series, I've come to understand the real essence of communication – the profound sincerity of a gaze. It's that moment when the person you engage with is open, honest, and unguarded, devoid of any facade or fear. It's all about trust and genuine interest. This is when reality speaks through the person you're interacting with. This form of connection brings about revelations, an abundance of energy, and the true essence of a meaningful encounter.
The idea of a soul in one's eyes is a metaphorical expression that has been used in various contexts throughout history. The eyes are the windows to the soul, representing a human's innermost thoughts and emotions. For instance, human eyes may be described as "soulful" if they display a great deal of emotion or if they reveal a complex inner world. In this context, the eyes are seen as a reflection of a human's character, personality, and life experiences. Concept of the soul in one's eyes can be linked to psychic abilities or supernatural powers. According to some paranormal beliefs, a human with "soulful eyes" may have the ability to see beyond the physical world and tap into other dimensions of reality.
I will summarize a feeling that can hardly be described in words by answering the statement of Minandros - "The beams of the sun, the light of distant stars, the boundless expanse of the sea, the procession of clouds racing across the sky, the sparks rising up from a campfire, no matter how much longer you're destined to live in this world, you will not see anything more beautiful than this." Having repeatedly and for a long time contemplated these beauties, I can say that I saw great one - a conscious gaze into the eyes.
Through this series, I've come to understand the real essence of communication – the profound sincerity of a gaze. It's that moment when the person you engage with is open, honest, and unguarded, devoid of any facade or fear. It's all about trust and genuine interest. This is when reality speaks through the person you're interacting with. This form of connection brings about revelations, an abundance of energy, and the true essence of a meaningful encounter.
The idea of a soul in one's eyes is a metaphorical expression that has been used in various contexts throughout history. The eyes are the windows to the soul, representing a human's innermost thoughts and emotions. For instance, human eyes may be described as "soulful" if they display a great deal of emotion or if they reveal a complex inner world. In this context, the eyes are seen as a reflection of a human's character, personality, and life experiences. Concept of the soul in one's eyes can be linked to psychic abilities or supernatural powers. According to some paranormal beliefs, a human with "soulful eyes" may have the ability to see beyond the physical world and tap into other dimensions of reality.
I will summarize a feeling that can hardly be described in words by answering the statement of Minandros - "The beams of the sun, the light of distant stars, the boundless expanse of the sea, the procession of clouds racing across the sky, the sparks rising up from a campfire, no matter how much longer you're destined to live in this world, you will not see anything more beautiful than this." Having repeatedly and for a long time contemplated these beauties, I can say that I saw great one - a conscious gaze into the eyes.
"Flowers are slow explosions"
Observing the explosion and blossoming simultaneously, you can notice the identity of their movements and forms. The energy, having amassed to the utmost point, is released as sparks in the event of a detonation, and a pistil for flowers, and tongues of flame for the former, and as petals for the latter. Upon attaining instantly absolute beauty, they smoothly dissolve into space.
Flowers and explosions cause a strong emotional reaction. Also, both can have impressive visual power. Finally, both flowers and explosions can be associated with the idea of rebirth and renewal. Explosions can cause destruction and the end, but they can also open the way for new beginnings and ideas. Likewise, flowers can be associated with the idea of growth and new life, as they appear each year in the spring and symbolize the rebirth of nature.
"in the eye of my fear"
For many years, since childhood, fear and hate to people of Armenia has been instilled in me at school. Years later, already understanding what a human is, the road led me to the city at the border of Georgia. Here I realized that this feeling does not belong to me. Right after it this conversation immediately took place.
At the end of a discussion of points of view with Serge about the current situation between our nations, I asked him to take a very close-up photograph of his eye. Because the eyes don't lie.
«Beauty is in the eye of the beholder»
Laying on a grass on the main square of Kutaisi and watching the sky throughout the glasses I noticed in reflection how the light separates to all colors of spectrum going through a eye-water falling under the 45°
"infinity"
With this photograph, I have reached the limit of my camera with a depth of 8 realities, but I am sure that I will go much further in the next.
«recreeyetion»
I closed my eyes and saw an image burned into my retina
"eyePhone"
"A portrait of a modern man who looks from two to ten hours a day." quoted this frame for the photo essay "HUMAN of 2020". Although this idea is still relevant, since I considered this device the height of modern poptechnology of humankind, which has literally become an external organ. Over the past 4 years, the technology has grown rapidly and today I can say with confidence that this black bar is already at the end of its glory.
"astigmatic illusions"
The desire to understand vision at other focal lengths led me to spend several hours walking along the river with a vision experience that I had not experienced before, it felt like dizziness, then visually it turned out to be
"I"
By observing the sky through sunglasses, the observing eye can see the outer world as far as it can focus, at the same time can see the inner space as deep as it can focus.
"Skywatcher"
Наблюдают люди,
как облака плывут
навстречу
и только вечер
раскрасит лица,
смотрящих вверх.
так я заметил...
как время наполняет
мои глаза
и глаза встречных."
"People are watching,
as clouds drift
toward them,
and only the evening
will paint the faces
of those looking up.
so I noticed...
how time fills
my eyes
and the eyes of those
passing by."
lullan
Наблюдают люди,
как облака плывут
навстречу
и только вечер
раскрасит лица,
смотрящих вверх.
так я заметил...
как время наполняет
мои глаза
и глаза встречных."
"People are watching,
as clouds drift
toward them,
and only the evening
will paint the faces
of those looking up.
so I noticed...
how time fills
my eyes
and the eyes of those
passing by."
lullan
«Benjamin's screen»
The largest number of eye contacts bypassing the boundaries of time and space. Almost everyone in the civilized world received Benjamin Franklin's message by unconsciously looking him in the eye. If we accept time as a plane in a four-dimensional space, then a banknote, a monotype, or in this case a screen will be that plane of time.
"Invisible interconnections"
A visual story illuminating the invisibleground of the differences, similarities and connection between two generations.
The width of the pupils shows physiologically, the difference in vision under the same conditions,
which causes misunderstanding between generations.
A visual story illuminating the invisibleground of the differences, similarities and connection between two generations.
The width of the pupils shows physiologically, the difference in vision under the same conditions,
which causes misunderstanding between generations.
«Spherical vision»
The heat that we experience with our skin is nothing more than the infrared spectrum, supposedly outside the field of vision of the eye. By recognizing and accepting this fact, a person gains spherical vision. The brightest effect can be felt by focusing sunlight on the skin with a magnifying glass. The most sensitive areas of this vision are those parts of the skin that have more folds due to more coverage of nerve endings. Most of them are on the palms, so if human wants to receive more input information, reaches out to the object under study with his hands.
«UV Vision»
Since childhood, we have been taught a color system comprising seven colors, with little acknowledgment of the existence of spectrums before and after. However, this is merely one way to categorize colors based on perception and cultural conventions. For defining these specific colors is often given to Newton, who structured the spectrum in this manner back in the 17th century. Remarkably, we rarely question this paradigm, resulting in a limitation to our perception. The idea that ancient people may not have had a specific word for the color blue, and didn't perceive it in the same way we do today, is a concept known as "linguistic relativity". So, despite our awareness of ultraviolet and our eyes' capability to detect it, it should occupy a place in the realm of recognizable colors.
«Illuminant»
In ancient times, it was claimed that vision occurs due to subtle streams of light emanating from the eye and colliding with objects in the external world. And this is the case. When a light source is reflected on the tear lining of the eye, it itself becomes a source. This can be seen with a long exposure to the most light-sensitive matter in the universe known to man - the retina. Everyone is familiar with the image of the sun or other bright source, which is visible for several tens of seconds with your eyes closed. And so, if you observe the world in the subtle streams of this light emanating from the reflection on the eye, you can see the world that was described and prominent in ancient Greece. It was notably supported by the philosopher Empedocles (c. 490–430 BC) and later by Euclid (c. 300 BC). Оur modern understanding of vision, which was first proposed by the ancient Roman physician and philosopher Galen (c. 129–c. 200 AD) who presented it as a competing theory rather than an in-depth one. By combining these two theories we get a vision with more dimensions.
In ancient times, it was claimed that vision occurs due to subtle streams of light emanating from the eye and colliding with objects in the external world. And this is the case. When a light source is reflected on the tear lining of the eye, it itself becomes a source. This can be seen with a long exposure to the most light-sensitive matter in the universe known to man - the retina. Everyone is familiar with the image of the sun or other bright source, which is visible for several tens of seconds with your eyes closed. And so, if you observe the world in the subtle streams of this light emanating from the reflection on the eye, you can see the world that was described and prominent in ancient Greece. It was notably supported by the philosopher Empedocles (c. 490–430 BC) and later by Euclid (c. 300 BC). Оur modern understanding of vision, which was first proposed by the ancient Roman physician and philosopher Galen (c. 129–c. 200 AD) who presented it as a competing theory rather than an in-depth one. By combining these two theories we get a vision with more dimensions.
«UltraSencivity»
Have you noticed that humans feel when eyes on them? This comes from the fact that we subconsciously notice in the eyes of the watched a new, small bright source of light that has appeared in our field of vision. Even with stronger sensitivity, human can notice a glance outside the field of view, sensing the weak infrared spectrum on the skin.
"The third eye"
Have you noticed that when we observe things at a close distance, we tend to focus on one eye, while the information provided by the other is used to provide depth perception? If you make a conscious effort to pay attention to both while looking at your reflection, it might lead to the appearing of the third eye.
Have you noticed that when we observe things at a close distance, we tend to focus on one eye, while the information provided by the other is used to provide depth perception? If you make a conscious effort to pay attention to both while looking at your reflection, it might lead to the appearing of the third eye.
«imagination»
It is not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Focusing on the vision of the third eye, the details of the physical object are not so significant, meanwhile, the details of the imaginary image become more clearly.
spect~
Ocularity
Ocularity
This portrait was made with intent to capture magic of a wide range of emotions into one ephemeral moment, combining all feelings into a single harmony. The eyes in the photograph radiate mystery and bewitching. The first thing that catches the viewer is the hypnotic depth, like a whirlwind of gaze that beckons and carries into unknown worlds. It makes the viewer think, drawing into its world and fills the heart with the exciting emotions that humans experience while observing its depth.
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"In this series, I've embarked on a journey to trace my deep-rooted passion for observing the eyes, as I firmly believe that genuine communication transpires through the eyes.
