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'Here is Looking at You.'

2020

film, vinyl wallpaper

3'-0"w x 9'-0"h x 0"d

Here’s Looking at You is an immersive installation that transforms a public restroom into a psychological theater of gaze, perception, and reversal.

A life-size photograph of John Lennon holding a camera confronts visitors directly across from the toilet. In a space typically associated with privacy and vulnerability, the viewer is placed in the unexpected position of being observed. Seated, one becomes the subject—caught within Lennon’s lens.

When turning toward the sink and mirror, the dynamic shifts. A negative image of the photograph is layered onto the mirrored surface. The viewer’s reflection merges with Lennon’s inverted portrait, collapsing subject and object into a single composite image. The one who was being watched now becomes the watcher.

The installation stages a quiet but deliberate play between observer and observed, exposure and control, image and reflection. In a space designed for anonymity, the work heightens awareness of visibility—how identity is constructed through acts of looking, being looked at, and recognizing oneself within another’s frame.

By manipulating orientation, reflection, and inversion, Here’s Looking at You transforms an ordinary restroom into a site of perceptual exchange—where privacy becomes performance and gaze becomes architecture.

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