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How People With Bad Eyesight See The World When They Take Off Their Glasses Illustrated In 29 Oil Paintings
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Have you ever wondered how people with specific eye errors see the world? Philip Barlow, a Cape Town-based artist, has created a series of oil paintings that vividly shows the struggle of those who have myopia or nearsightedness, the most common refractive eyesight error.
At first glance, Barlow’s paintings look like photographs that are out of focus. But these realistic paintings perfectly portray the blurred effect that nearsighted people see when they take off their glasses, and let those with normal eye vision understand what it’s like to live with this condition. Of course, not only these colorful paintings will scratch that itch of curiosity, but they are also highly aesthetically pleasing and really are the modern art pieces that you've never seen before.
Scroll down to see the blurry-eyed realistic artworks for yourself.
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It's funny cause this is EXACTLY how I see the world without my glasses
this!! i can never explain to sighted people how the streetlights/traffic lights etc look!
These paintings are really gorgeous just as artworks, especially the ones like this one where the subjects are so indistinct it's hard to tell what they even are. Besides beautiful art!
The artist tends to overdo the circular blobs to indicate lights and reflections. There are just too many of them in some pictures and the reflections on water are not so uniformly round as depicted in these pics. In the this picture, the blobs appear to be in the foreground, and look like raindrops on a camera lens. I cannot focus on anything more than about five inches past the end of my nose. It's an interesting idea though, these pics.
Pretty close to my vision. It looks pretty like this, but annoying in bright sunlight or if you're trying to find someone.
Nd then my friends ask: Why didn't you stop when saw me that morning?
I wear specs. Sadly, I would be chuffed to see as well as is depicted in these paintings. Without my glasses everything is just a blur of unrecognisable shapes... :-(
it's weird, like if i take my glasses off i can see this more clearly....
I'd trade my vision for a world in which it is sunny all the time.
Being myopic myself, I believe that the lack of detail sometimes makes the world a more beautiful and mysterious place, with more scope for imagination. But most of the time it just annoys you :D
That gives me a new perspective on my myopia that makes it more acceptable to me now. Thank you :)
On the plus side, you don't notice the dust in your house as much!
I agree!
I take off my glasses, instant impressionist painting! Thank you for these beautiful renderings of my normal vision.
Amazing renditions. I had my eyes fixed about 20 years ago so I could fly for the military and this really reminded me of what it was like to take off my glasses. It almost brought me to tears because I had forgotten how impaired I was without my glasses. Thank you for these wonderful images and reminding me how good I have it now. Beautiful work.
Being myopic myself, I believe that the lack of detail sometimes makes the world a more beautiful and mysterious place, with more scope for imagination. But most of the time it just annoys you :D
That gives me a new perspective on my myopia that makes it more acceptable to me now. Thank you :)
On the plus side, you don't notice the dust in your house as much!
I agree!
I take off my glasses, instant impressionist painting! Thank you for these beautiful renderings of my normal vision.
Amazing renditions. I had my eyes fixed about 20 years ago so I could fly for the military and this really reminded me of what it was like to take off my glasses. It almost brought me to tears because I had forgotten how impaired I was without my glasses. Thank you for these wonderful images and reminding me how good I have it now. Beautiful work.