Prompt for participants: Take a picture of someone with their eyes crossed.
project statement
In his novel A Journey to Ixtlan, Carlos Castaneda describes a conversation with an indigenous sorcerer who teaches him to see the world differently. The technique "consisted of gradually forcing your eyes to see separately the same image. The lack of image conversion entailed a double perception of the world ... which the eyes were ordinarily incapable of perceiving." In her essay "Feeling with your eyes" the artist and activist Serena Kataoka takes this notion one step further, arguing that Castaneda's notion of cross-eyed vision can also be applied to social and political culture, allowing one to hold multiple — and sometimes conflicting — perspectives in one's mind at the same time.
