The stereograph simulates human binocular vision, where the left and right eyes capture the same scene from slightly different angles and the brain combines the two images into a 3-D representation. When the stereograph is viewed without a stereoscope, the viewer is confronted with two side-by-side 2-D flat images. A simple deconstruction of our visual system.
When the brain processes these two flat images, it detects the inconsistencies between the two, provoking a feeling of unease. Suddenly, the world depicted becomes uncanny and strange.
These photographs represent an abnormality, malfunction, deficiency, or disorder. For instance, double vision (diplopia), or neurosis. A breakdown of the body. A confused state.
Horror fusionis “fear of fusion” (a title derived from the rare medical condition causing double vision) is an attempt to find beauty in the confusing, the dysfunctional, the unsettling, and the uncomfortable.
