Argus (2025)

Variable dimensions | Multi-Channel Video Installation

This piece began by accident: I peeled what I thought was a screen protector off a new monitor, and the image disappeared. It was the polarizing layer. Hold the film back up, and the picture returned.

This mistake became "Argus". I stripped the polarizers from salvaged LCDs so the screens appeared blank. Viewers use a handheld filter to move through the screens, revealing overlapping LiDAR scans of city streets.

The title comes from Argus Panoptes, the “all-seeing” giant; the myth that the work contradicts. Here, fragility is the subject. Sight is conditional and fragile: a one-degree shift in filter angle or a brighter entry light destroys it.

Building it taught me that installation can be part of the meaning. I rebuilt frames, recalibrated angles, dimmed the entry light, and cut the label short so the first action (picking up the filter) was obvious without spoiling the reveal. "Argus" argues that visibility is made, not given; to see at all, someone has to set the conditions.