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ball made of metal bars

The Roaming Eyeball is a large steel sphere with a digital video camera mounted internally. The Eyeball is rolled arond the streets of Kitchener while the video camera documents its path. I am interested in seeing what an "eye" can see when it is dislocated from a body. The subsequent video projection merges the terrestrial and the celestial and exposes the absurdity of having a part of the body freed from its whole.


Ilan Sandler was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1971. He received a B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Toronto, and a Honours Fine Arts certificate from the Ontario College of Art and Design. In 2000 he was awarded an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. He has had solo exhibitions at the Toronto Sculpture Garden, Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, and at AIT in St. Louis.

http://www.ilansandler.com/