Touch me With
Your Eyes
'Touch me with your eyes' documents a friend’s journey through chemotherapy post Covid-19, but still in isolation. After observing the initial medical procedures, I began capturing portraits of the different stages. Collectively, this fulfilled the need to understand and process the feelings and experiences for the subject and the photographer.
The portraits are complemented by the subject’s handwritten diary entries. In this series, I want to suggest that different perspectives must be considered to bring out the depth of a situation. In doing so, the use of stereographs (3D images) aims to transport the viewers right into the subject’s living space re-enacting feelings of discomfort and dissociation.
'As part of Platform 2022, Thais Verhasselt’s series ‘Touch me with your eyes’ was an impactful love letter to every person who has experienced taking care of someone dear to them in their life. Through an exquisite presentation of photographic work and a stereograph to present 3D images created an immersive experience for visitors to be able to connect and be transported to an intimate setting, enforcing an independent and solo visualisation technique.'
Ricardo Reveron Blanco
Curator - Aspex Portsmouth
