The Photoreceptor Oculus Box
Pages from Recycled Vintage Books
Unique Box Set of 10 Collaged Pine Wood Blocks
Kathy Bruce, 2025
£250.00
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The word “Photoreceptor” (the light-detecting cells behind your eyes) originates from the two ancient
Greek words that combined mean “Light Receivers”. They convert the light entering your eye and convert it into a form your brain transfers into vision. “Oculus” refers to a circular space flooded with natural light such as the eye or an architectural space. It is also associated with the supernatural and the unknown. In this case, the collaged block Images “letting the light in” depict variations on light-receiving metaphors such as human vision, cameras, lenses, X-rays and technology which examine both the Surrealist concept of eyes wide open and wide shut. |
Kathy Bruce is a U.S. visual artist now based in Argyll & Bute Scotland.
Her sculpture installations and collages trace the mythologies and histories of women,
plants and landscape and how their interconnected relationships can be integrated visually
to form a poetic contemporary understanding of Humans and Nature.
More of her work can be seen at:
Instagram: kat10bruce (collages) and Bamboowillowladies (environmental sculptures)
and on her website: kathybruceartist.com
email Kathy at kathybruce10@gmail.com