"B. Nizo" 
Materials: Cocobolo, Padauk, Brandy Bottle, Broken Glass, Steel.
Unlike most other frames I have made, these are not meant to "correct" vision. With this pair I wanted to distort or at least play around with how we take in our surroundings through our eyes. I wanted to create a visual experience for a viewer to partake in and it reminded me of when I used to capture and edit super8 film of all my daily routine. So when working on these goggles, I was inspired by a beautiful piece of machinery, my Braun Nizo super eight camcorder.
I worked around the many technical options given by a film camera. The lenses of green and blue allow light to pass through and filter the spectrum not too far off from how a piece of film receives what light is left after its journey through the camera. There are different levels of focus on the lenses themselves, as the blue is a bit more blurry than the green. I included two "apertures" of different sizes and and different focal lengths from the retina, these are the steel discs that are able to rotate around in front of the lenses.
The contouring of the Nizo is shaped in such a way that the rear of the fronts molds to the viewer's face, only allowing light to enter through the apertures. In this regard, the frames become a pin-hole camera where memory is the film on which the images are retained.
This piece will be auctioned off on February 17th at Eye Want in Chicago where the benefits will proceed the Lions Eye Institute Research. The estimated value is 1200 dollars.
