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Chaos Optometry #0.4

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I always remember the red hot air balloon in the optometry equipment during the eye examination, which is sometimes blurry and sometimes clear. As we try to focus our eyes, the optometrist also gazes at our eyes through the reflected light. The hot air balloon becomes the embodiment of the "gaze" and everything is ambiguous and chaotic. It links two distinct gazes like a wormhole, and covers the spectrum from the clearest to the faintest - both in the image itself and in the test subject's visual physiology. The hot air balloon reminds me of the legend of the East that when chaos was not yet deciphered, there was an egg-shaped hollow in the center of chaos - and Pan Gu was curled up in it. "Chaos Optometry" is a work that divides a painting into ten levels of clarity, all pointing to the same question: will the concept of equivalence create different values according to the clarity of the painting? When we look at NFT artworks on devices, the excess of pixels beyond the screen resolution expresses the pursuit of high quality; at the same time several pixel arts such as CryptoPunks are becoming a legendary story. In terms of clarity, this seems to represent two extremes, but does it also imply that the desire to gaze at digital works is actually more chaotic than we might think? Behind these shifting clarity and pixel sizes, the further thoughts are: whose sight comes through the hot air balloon and stares at our eyeballs? What do the countless eyes on the blockchain see? --------------------------------------------------- 永遠記得視力檢查時，驗光儀器中那個紅色熱氣球，時而模糊時而清晰。在我們試圖聚焦觀看的同時，驗光師亦透過折返的光來凝視我們眼球。那顆熱氣球儼然成為「凝視」的化身，一切曖昧不明，混沌無序。它像蟲洞般連結了兩個截然不同的凝視，也涵蓋了從最清晰到最模糊的光譜──無論是圖像自身、受測者的生理視力。這顆熱氣球讓我想到東方傳說中，混沌未開時，在混沌中央那個蛋形──盤古蜷縮其中的地方。《Chaos Optometry》這件作品，將同一畫作分成十個等級的清晰度，但皆指向同一個提問：等價的概念，會不會因不同的清晰度而產生相異的價值。當我們在裝置上欣賞NFT藝術品時，超出螢幕解析度那些過剩的像素，對高畫質的追求；以及CryptoPunks等若干像素藝術共譜的傳奇故事。從畫質、清晰度來看，似乎是兩種極端，但是否也意味著對於數位作品凝視的慾望，實際上比我們想像得更加混沌不明。在這些變換的清晰度、像素尺寸背後，更進一步思考，藉著熱氣球穿越而來的視線中，是誰正凝視著我們的眼球？在鏈上千萬雙眼眸中，他們又看見了什麼？ --------------------------------------------------- 6400*6400 pixels 300 dpi

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