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This artist book was inspired by the 1942 vintage text “The Art of Seeing” by Aldus Huxley. In the book, Huxley expounds on his perception of visual disability and a method for correcting impaired vision called the Bates Method. Using Huxley’s premise that the faculty of perceiving is related to the individual’s accumulated experiences, or memory, this book symbolizes my use of eyewear during my childhood as suggestive of something more than an imbalance of the muscles that support vision.