Animal Vision

I have always thought about bugs because ever since I was little, since I was very afraid of them. They remind me of one of my young students, who as soon as she saw ants, she smashed or stepped on them. I guess it could be a child’s thing, since they don’t know any better.  So for that reason I chose to work at a collage in a perspective that showed how ants see the human world and their surroundings.  I included different colors to my images such as black, brown, orange and green, which I relate to the color of the ants and thinking how they see more darkness than light because they are so tiny.

In my resource I found out that ants eyes are composed with many different units, each of the units called ommatidium where one point sees in space. That means each eye sees one image but only a portion of it because they are not high in resolution for the image. The small eyes on top of their head helps them detect light level and polarization so that they can see a little bit better. For that reason, I include blurry spots and large, dried foliage.  My second  image included a pumpkin which is big, thinking that also the little ants climb no matter the height to get their food. In the same way, it also includes the space of the other than the claiming. Both of my images at first were confusing to me, but thinking about how baffling it was for the ants seeing the same image in their own world made me think about how perspective changes everything.. In a certain way I ended up identifying my images to the moments that humans have in circumstances of confusion, and that we see everything distorted and without exit.