All the Eyes are Mine is a series of Victorian-era portrait photographs that have been digitally manipulated so that my eyes appear in every face.  The original photographs were collected from various antique shops, and are not of anyone I know or was once related to.

The replacement of their eyes came from a strange longing to understand and experience a different time, but also to occupy a different space – an imagining of death.  It creates an inversion in which the living haunts the dead, or perhaps tries to prevent their death by a revival of sorts.  The unnaturalness of this act is felt upon the identification of the repetition; the realization that the whole wall is inhabited by the same gaze.

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