Artist Project / Eye Drawings
The way he looked
Jochem Hendricks
![An eye drawing by artist Jochem Hendricks titled](/issues/24/cabinet_024_beller_jonathan_001.jpg)
![An eye drawing by artist Jochem Hendricks titled](/issues/24/cabinet_024_beller_jonathan_002.jpg)
![An eye drawing by artist Jochem Hendricks titled](/issues/24/cabinet_024_beller_jonathan_003.jpg)
All images from artist Jochem Hendricks’s “Eye Drawings” series, 1992–1993. These apparently frenetic drawings were in fact made by Hendricks directly with his eyes as he read or examined a bill, receipt, or, in one case, a blank sheet of paper. Hendricks tracks the movements of his eyes by wearing a special helmet equipped with infra-red sensors that follow the movements of each eye. The location of any point on which the eye rests for at least a hundredth of a second is recorded sequentially as a coordinate on the X and Y axes. These points are then connected by straight lines, each eye yielding a drawing.
Jochem Hendricks is an artist based in Frankfurt. His work has been exhibited at Gropiusbau Berlin; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among other venues. For more information, visit www.jochem-hendricks.de.