'Ocula' is a contemporary re-staging of Brazilian conceptual artist Lygia Clark's 1968 interactive sculpture titled Dialogo Oculos. The original work comprised of a pair of double ended spectacles designed to engage two participants in the intimate act of gazing into one another's eyes. Co-opting Clark's participatory, sensory and spatial methodology, my Oculus invites one to consider the disconnect, distance and mediation of human sight and relationships in a post-pandemic and post-smartphone world.

A lone participant is met with a virtual presence, a pluralism of eyes that are unresponsive, overwhelmed and distracted accompanied by a cacophony of camera sounds. It's easy to loose touch with our sense of a body. Technological innovation reduces , augments and fragments the amount of movements we make on a daily basis whilst visual consumption remains rife. A top of this the social distancing has made us more reluctant to physically touch and engage at close proximity.

‘Ocula’ can also be considered a performance exploring the act of capturing mental images. And the mental state of photographing. Where are our on/off switches?