Made in collaboration with Marta Cavicchioni.

The concept of this work could be best explained by Marta whose idea is behind it, but could be assumed in poor man’s words by the following: it comes from playing with the theory that man/woman is born the moment he or she upon leaving the womb at birth receives his/her first image once light hits the retina and is from then on able to create images of his/her own and finally be the unique person that’s just been born.
A first crucial step in a lifetime of seeing, feeling, hoping, imagining and creating and being the person with no equal who’s fantasy is identical to none.

In this piece the colourful retina, painted by Marta on thin rice paper and then mounted on a bicycle wheel, emits light with the help of the observer who, once giving the wheel a spin drives a mechanical train which then drives a dynamo which then lights up the retina from behind. A different image is created every time the observer gives some of his or her energy giving a birth in turn to a new image in the eye of the beholder!
Made almost entirely from recycled parts; from used bike parts, to an old wind up torch, to the base made from a piece of wood I found.