Finding His Iris
1913: engineer August Natterer has an episode of hallucinatory visions. He draws his eyes after the event with a dark, knotted pattern around one iris. He says that the vision was so powerful it must have left a mark on his actual eye.
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Four sheets of organza interfere with each-other. Their pattern etches the walls and is cut into the floorboards.
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I think about this iris often, and what it might be like to be inscribed by the things I see.
material list:
eyewash (4,000 ml) applied to the floor and walls
spruce veneers
steel brackets
synthetic organza
wall sections