Hunting Binoculars 3 (Progress Through the Looking Glass)

Rendered in a smoky monochrome wash, the image turns a pair of circular lenses into a moral instrument—one eye frames a smiling, vessel-like head hoisted by a crane, while the other traps the billowing exhale of industrial stacks. The crisp, diagrammatic rings read like surveillance or diagnosis, suggesting a world where perception is engineered and culpability is neatly compartmentalized. By binding these two scenes within the same optical device, the work implies that “progress” and its fumes are not separate views but a single, inseparable gaze—an unsettling portrait of modernity’s self-satisfied face beside its atmospheric scar.