The machine itself is composed of several pieces of camera and binocular lenses, layered and glued together, and structured into a rectangular base, with a translucent top wall to see how the machine was constructed. A s simple as the machine looks, it was extremely difficult to keep the pieces together, since i had to glue lenses together which wouldn't stick. When looking through the machine, all the viewer sees is a distorted view of colors and shapes, except one other thing....
One other problem I was having with the machine was keeping the lenses clean. When I thought I had successfully finished the machine, I mistakenly left a fingerprint on one of the lenses. Now, instead of seeing nothing, you see distortion and a fingerprint that manages to focus your attention to. After viewing this, I feel that this mistake could be part of the design, and the fingerprint can be viewed as another element in this view of nothingness.
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