“Panopticon” by Dustin J Voggenreiter
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- Panopticon
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‘Panopticon’ explores the idea of our limited capacity to understand the world around us – As creatures born with perceptions geared towards survival, we grasp at making sense of the complex, chaotic reality we inhabit.
Concealment within this work poetically eludes to the gaps in our species ability to understand reality. This idea extends from Plato’s famous cave shadow allegory (500+ BCE) to avant-garde theories proposed by Cognitive Psychologist Dr Donald Hoffman, all of which highlight the inadequacy of human perception.
The monotony inherent in the GIF format channels the looping, unresolved nature of these ideas. We are, in essence, trapped.
