Used to be 3D, now 0D.

Liulu Ehrlichman was one of a group of art students who came in to see the Repair Shop, all of them bringing with them something they had themselves tried to turn into an artwork but given up on. The laconic description she wrote on the receipt says it all, -I broke the lenses out off them. Indeed she did. But then she stopped there. I guess one of the things I really learned at art college myself, was making informed judgements on what art worked and what didn’t. This new heightened awareness can sometimes become a hindrance though. If you think too much about the how and if the art works, you might not even get the ideas in the first place. At least that is my experience. So I decided to turn the glasses into an aid in that process.

Also a cool fashion statement when going to openings.

It’s not that I think seeing the world through a plus and a minus changes your vision in any way (other then limiting your peripheral vision a bit), but the knowledge that you are doing this, and that other people are looking at your glasses and interpreting them as such, can serve as a reminder that judgments are based on nothing more than collectively agreed upon cultural conventions. And that successful art often rely upon self aware manipulation of those norms.

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