Roseate

Roseate investigates the connection between vision and state of mind by using tinted filters to interact with the historical Camera Obscura in Santa Monica, California. These experiments are documented through photographs and sculptural artifacts.

Within a mechanism that is essentially a model of the human eye, reality is projected “through rose-colored glasses” in order to examine the blurred line between optimism and delusion, the rituals we perform to conjure change, and the pitfalls and power of hope.

Lenses are obscured with melted wax, suggesting ceremonial candles and the intensity of solar firelight; adorned with glass eyes, invoking the “third eye” of insight or the nazar talisman against the “evil eye,” and rose quartz crystals, purportedly channeling positive energy; then suspended by balloons, embodying both the buoyancy and deflation of wishful thinking.

Presented in 2019 at the Camera Obscura Art Lab with support from the City of Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Division

Read about Roseate in the Cambridge architecture journal Scroope