Look Of Love

Using years in love as a parameter for the gaze duration, Look of Love captures the gaze of two lovers and manifests the data into an object. The objects are made with the participant’s anniversary material. In collaboration with Haelo Design, Zach Pino, and Sanaz Sohrabi, this piece is presented at the 2014 Istanbul Design Biennial.

Manifesting the Look of Love was a project made during my undergraduate time at SAIC. This project was made using an industrial eye tracker and custom hardware for calibration. Data was recorded between two lovers where their relationship duration was the metric for the amount of time recording their gaze. The longer the couple was in love for, the higher resolution data we would collect yielding more detail in the designed objects that were developed.

 
 

  • 2014

  • I used the Gazept eye tracker and built a custom Java API for it. Rather than using an LCD screen for calibration, I created a custom transparent plane with LEDs which synced with the calibration process. Every object was created through a unique process. Data was analyzed using Matlab. Here is a custom library I made for it.

  • People were able to find the nuances of their partners regardless of how abstract the objects were. For example, some people reported the birthmarks of their lovers being present in the objects, as their gaze drew attention to them during the experience.

 
 
 

Paper Object
Anniversary : 1yr

Lisa and Bruce

Tthe paper object highlights the path that the lovers’ eyes walk. The creased edges, viewed from above, show the course of how the lovers’ eyes deflected from consis- tent eye contact.

 

Anniversary : 9yrs

David and Vanessa

These irregular baskets can be thought of as the ‘face that the lovers see when they looked at one another.’

 

Anniversary : 10yrs

Heather and Tom

The aluminum object highlights the path that the lover’s eyes followed etched on the inside.

 

Anniversary : 20yrs

Ron and Helen Maria

The porcelain object highlights the contact that the lovers’ eyes make

 

Anniversary : 25yrs

Craig and Patrice

Depth was generated from how often eyes repeatedly looked at the same place on their lover’s face.