From Vision to Perception is a photographic work that examines how seeing operates before it becomes meaning. Rather than treating photography as a tool for expression or narrative, this work focuses on the structural conditions that allow an image to be perceived as coherent.

Vision and perception are often treated as the same, yet they function differently. Vision refers to the physiological process in which light enters the eye and is processed by the brain, while perception is the cognitive activity that organizes, interprets, and stabilizes that visual input. What we experience as “seeing” is not a direct reflection of reality, but a constructed outcome shaped by memory, expectation, and perceptual habits. This project addresses that gap.

The photographs depict existing objects and environments without staging, manipulation, or symbolic emphasis. They are not selected for narrative, emotional impact, or visual spectacle. Instead, the act of photographing isolates fragments of the world that usually escape attention because they function too smoothly within everyday perception.

By minimizing expressive intent and dramatic subject matter, the images shift attention away from what is shown toward how it is seen. Meaning does not arise from the subject itself, but from the viewer’s perceptual system, which actively completes what is missing. The work therefore asks not what the image represents, but how it becomes readable.

A central concern of this project is the human tendency to perceive continuity where it does not objectively exist. The visual system compensates for blind spots, ambiguity, and incomplete information, producing a stable sense of the world. The photographs remain on the threshold of recognition: familiar enough to be understood, yet resistant to immediate categorization. This tension reveals the viewer’s own perceptual assumptions.

Importantly, this work avoids visual intervention such as collage or digital reconstruction. By working strictly within the photographic act, it emphasizes that perceptual construction is not added afterward, but occurs automatically within the viewer. Photography does not distort reality; perception does.

The title From Vision to Perception refers to the transition from raw visual input to interpreted experience. These photographs operate prior to meaning, allowing viewers to encounter seeing as an unstable and constructed process rather than a transparent one.