Eyeye

This drawing starts from the point of view of my green eye. I am heterochromatic, and that eye has always struggled to see clearly because of astigmatism and myopia. Inside the eye, a diagram maps the loss of focus: a grid, dots and lines of perspective that scatter and blur. The chair stands for depth, one of the things that is hardest for me to read. The letters "abc" refer to learning, to the effort of making out the shapes of the alphabet as a child. The green tears take the colour of the eye itself. Watercolour and pencil are used together on purpose: the soft, uncertain wash meets the precise lines of a measuring scheme, as if trying to understand what cannot quite be brought into focus.