I’ve spent years making and looking through kaleidoscopes, and they still take my breath away.
It has always fascinated me that a few simple mirrors, positioned at particular angles, can transform a handful of random fragments and a little light into something so extraordinarily beautiful.
And here’s the part that never ceases to amaze me.
Turn the kaleidoscope ever so slightly, and the entire image changes. The colours rearrange, new patterns emerge, and something you’ve never seen before appears right in front of your eyes.
How extraordinary is that?
That sense of wonder eventually sparked a much bigger curiosity about patterns, attention, recognition and the way we see.
And not just what we see through a kaleidoscope, but what we notice, overlook and sometimes assume in our everyday lives.
This is why my latest project, LOOK AGAIN, matters so much to me.
I’ve come to appreciate how easily we can settle on our first impression of something. A situation, a conversation, another person, even ourselves.
But what happens when we become curious enough to take another look?
Could we notice something we missed? Discover another possibility? Recognise that what we thought we knew wasn’t quite the whole picture?
I believe those are questions worth exploring, not only for ourselves, but also for the people we share our lives with.
Through LOOK AGAIN, I’ll be sharing discoveries from my years of working with kaleidoscopes, exploring the science of perception, asking questions and inviting you to experiment alongside me.
And I suspect we’ll both discover things we didn’t expect.
Looking is something we do. Looking again is something we choose to do.