Thomas W Kuppler

What do you really see?

I am interested in the notion of using methodological experimentation within an image in order to abstract and play with the visible and invisible through obstruction.

A combination of thinking off and thinking in itself.
A combination of experience and feeling.
A combination of questioning and contingency.


Predominantly German and French philosophers views on “seeing” and perception are consciously and subconsciously absorbed to later emerge and to be translated into visual language.

The need to deconstruct the representational character of the photograph and to expand its conventional limits respectively has been triggered by the re-occurring obstruction in mind and image and constant questioning of the media through the very process of experimentation and exploration.

Ambiguity is leading to abstraction, using mixed media and perceptional puzzlement, but also engagement with the viewer and seer.

[the artist] gives something for the eye to feed on, but he invites the person to whom this picture is presented to lay down his gaze there as one lays down one's weapons. (Lacan)

Central Saint Martins, UAL
MA Photography
2014