I found the works of Wayne Martin Belger first via a link to bioephemera at Scienceblogs on friendfeed. Following the links provided, I found that he had constructed a pinhole camera in a tibetan skull (pinholes in the eye sockets). It's a double camera, meaning that you can take 3D images. In a weird way, you can use this camera to see with the eyes of this dead Tibetan. Awesome, just awesome!



Bioephemera writes on her blog: I just realized how deeply philosophical that sentence was. Isn't that also true of everything we perceive (think Immanuel Kant)? See also Magritte: "ceci n'est pas une pipe.":



Translation: this is not a pipe (it's the picture of a pipe).
As such, a pinhole camera is a very fitting allegory of our constructivist mind. To me, this is one of the things that art is all about...