"To one degree or another, we are all perceiving warped reflections of the truth. Imagine what would happen if the reflection became aware of itself" .
Don Miguel Ruiz. The three questions. Chapter 9.
The eye contains everything that exists in our subconscious; all our hopes, fears, despair…It is the silent, intuitive, emotional part of being human. It is there open,like a mental map, outlining the maze of one’s mind. The eye is a space that one enters, while remaining outside.
Milchan, in this series, brings the viewer to be contemplated by the very object it is contemplating. De-centered from his own space and place, like in a mirror where one does not recognize one-self, the onlooker is left vulnerable to a foreign gaze. And the more he looks into the work, the deeper he goes without a final destination, apart for death…
The Vortex, is this moment where the reflection becomes aware of itself.
Each eye is an encounter between the photographer and the photographed journey into unknown territories, like a distant planet in the galaxy.