I recently wrote about Eric Klarenbeek’s “Eye Jewellery” and how his previous contact lens concepts were being criticized for obstructing vision unwearable. “In the future I want to use the same material as the contact lens itself, so that you will not even see the wire,” he said. “The decoration would hang transparently from the eye.” In the video, it appears that he is making some sort of progress…
A contact lens becomes jewellery, such as spectacles ever became a representation of our identity. Our fear for imperfectness makes us modify our surrounding and being, striving for virtual perfection. Not being someone we should be, but someone we could be. Aesthetics are more and more based on Photoshop’s capabilities and slightly becomes the norm for plastic surgery, instead of nature. Eye jewellery shows our scientific capabilities while showing the beauty of imperfection.
