Blink

Works As Part Of Jason Bruges Studio

Job: Creative Technologist

Blink was a project for the British charity SightSavers, which was hosted in the OXO Tower Gallery on SouthBank. The aim of this project was to bring awareness to an eye disease called Trachoma. A preventable disease slowly turns your eyelashes onto the pupils over time and as an effect the eyelashes scrap away at the pupils causing the host to become blind. Through the use of digital technologies, Jason Bruges Studio wanted to recreate this effect to help bring to life the reality that these people have to deal with. Our work became the main part of an exhibition. Within the space, 5 screens were mounted which all displayed photos donated by photographers. As the viewer stood looking at the photo, their subconscious act of blinking slowly destroyed the photos – a digital representation of loosing vision.