This work is part of an ongoing series of photographs addressing retinal afterimages. We set out to ask where the point of departure exists between the immediate perceived realities of our visual existence and those of the fundamental decay of our experience through time.  In order to do this, we mapped our own retinas and created artificial retinas on which images can be focused.  These membranes retain optical information much in the same way does the eye.  Carefully arranged elements reflect the distribution of our own rods and cones and have been developed into a device, which can only ‘see’ afterimages. 

Disassociated forms gather new context presenting an aesthetic world of imagery beyond our conscious view; they are an intricate aspect to the way we perceive and in turn, create.  These works reveal subdued forms and colors left to play out in inversion, fading and lessening before finally digressing into the unconscious.

Maunder Minimum is a collaboration with Everett Lawson.