Julie van der Vaart , Blind Spot, 2022

Blind Spot by artist Julie van der Vaart is a poetic exploration of the concepts of imaginary time and deep time. Photographs of the human body, caves and water (waterfalls) are choreographed in disorienting sequences to reveal correlations between images. Created over six years, each series of works in the book contributes to the artist’s ongoing attempts to represent through the photographic image the discrepancies between imagined time and experienced linear time. The book’s title refers to the blind spot where the optic nerve connects to the retina and no light-sensitive cells are present. The brain fills the empty space based on the information surrounding the blind spot. The title serves as a metaphor for the potential divergence-the trick of the mind-between what we see and experience and what is real.