brendan bellomo and i were at the park and we discovered an array of tiles. the tiles were brown on one side, white on the other, and were independantly rotatable. brendan took a digital photo of my eye and we rushed home to scale it down to a 16 x 11 monochrome image. it was pretty hard to make out the image with just black and white, so we theorized that the tiles could be set in an in-between state, simulating a third color. with black, white, and grey, the image was comprehensible enough to be worthwhile. back at the park, we rendered our image on the tile array successfully.
some people can see it right away, some people have more trouble. everyone's brain is wired differently. the further away from the tiles, the easier it is to recognize the image. squinting also helps. after five minutes, the eye had been destroyed by toddlers, making this a very short-lived work of art. below are a few images of it taken by us.
two film shots of the park pixel eye - japhy riddle
a film shot of japhy and the park pixel eye (with digital demo) - brendan bellomo
2010