Unseeing

When looking at the image up close, you cannot make out what you are seeing, but as you move away from the image, you slowly uncover an outline of the facial features. The farther away you look at the image, the more of the portrait is revealed.

This series focuses on the concept of how when you see people, do you really “see” them? The blurriness takes away this sense of identity and creates a shape of a person without showing any specific features. When you set your eyes on something or someone, you do not register fully what you are looking at; no emotion, no personality, no person, no more than a figure passing by.

“Unseeing” takes the idea of a regular portrait and transforms it into something that is unconventional. Instead of seeing and understanding someone from a photograph, we are left asking questions about the person and who they really are.