Rhonda Weppler

Double Vision

2026
laser prints on matboard
10.25 × 8 × 2 inches each

In Ways of Seeing, author John Berger talks about mechanical reproduction enabling representations of artworks to be seen in many places at the same time. Double Vision is a play on this thought. Here, replication is centered on the human touch left behind as stains, notations, and tears found on multiple examples of the same toy eye model kit from the 1950s. Scouring the web for images of this kit, I reassembled images from multiple online posts to complete the box. Included in the assemblage are stains and other human traces, stitched into one object. Occupying real space, the artwork suggests the aura of something with a long history, but in reality it was born out of the virtual.