As an art teacher, the artist emphasizes teaching students how to truly see—beyond passive looking—to engage in deeper, contextual understanding. Fascinated by how contemporary culture consumes images, the artist explores how different technologies shape perception. They define three modes of image capture: the human eye (ocular), the camera lens (glass), and the scanner (non-lens based). For this series, source images were created by building reverse still lifes directly on a flatbed scanner, using prosthetic eyes, anatomical models, and historical medical documents. One painting even incorporates an MRI of the artist’s spine. Enhanced by controlled lighting, these scanned compositions yield hyper-detailed, lensless images. The final paintings are overlaid with red diagrammatic lines, highlighting the mediated systems through which we view all images.