Four children in a gallery with lenses mounted on wooden posts. Two peek through the lenses, one holds a pair of glasses, one looks toward the walls, where large mosaic artworks hang. The Situated Image

Seek

Remove Your Glasses.

Children learn early that eyes come in two kinds: the good ones, and the ones that need fixing. But here these artworks are designed for the uncorrected eye, clear only to those whose uncorrected vision is blurry, while provided lenses help those with 20/20 vision have the same experience.

Explore.

Seek is a gallery of pictures discovered in play. Fixed lenses arranged around the space will be tuned to matche different eyes. Roam the room, peek through the mounted lenses, can you find the right lens that will reveal the hidden pictures? Kids without glasses will be able to see the pieces without needing the mounted lenses, but from a specific distance they will discover.

Hidden Picture Samples

A hexagonal mosaic of soft pastel dots that hides an elephant, revealed when seen with a blurry eye.
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Seek the Elephant

“African Elephant” © Shoshana Coleman.

A shimmering print of clashing color fringes that hides a sea turtle, revealed when seen with a blurry eye.
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Seek the Turtle

“Green Sea Turtle” by Keenan Adams, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southeast Region, CC BY 2.0.

A smiling boy pressing one eye up to a lens mounted on a wooden gallery post, his other eye squeezed shut.
One eye at a time: each mounted lens works for a different eye.