SWD 46

The M(eye)crosoft, Gooogle & Faceboook Home–Office Self-Administered Optometry Eye-Chart See-Not See Monster!

Art: 2021
Media, the drawing:  Ink, pencil, colored pencil, gouache, rubber-stamped stampings, twine. 
frame size: 26 3/4 inches H x 32 3/4 W [2.54 cm H x 82 W]

Media, the frame: Mounted on the wood frame are pieces of metal I picked up on sidewalks and on street pavement, installed with metal screws (and adhesive) and 2 letters, an A and an F. which I picked up last year on a sidewalk.

Also mounted on the frame: a drawing of an eye I drew on paper and inserted in a watch case; a piece of plastic with the words FRANK BUSTER printed on  it, which I picked up on a beach somewhere, years ago; 2 pieces of plastic detritus picked up on the pavement; four glass marbles(round on one side and flat sided on the side I mounted on the wood frame), bought at a charity thrift store; a bicycle light (without batteries); a watch case with a 1973 b&w photo of me  wearing eyeglasses inserted in the watch case; a beat-up toy race car; and an all white toy ambulance. Whoever manufactured the toy ambulance is evidently a fan of vision-useless graphic design as the word AMBULANCE, and the cross image below the word (perhaps inferring the Red Cross) have no pigmentation and are barely seen on looking at the toy. 

The drawing includes 4 small drawings of vases with eyes in the pictorial imagery, drawn by the artist around 1971-72. There are 2 drawings of wheels by the artist, dated Nov. 14, 1972. A pencil drawing of an indeterminate letter was drawn around 1972. A pencil drawing of an eye was probably drawn around 2017. A pencil drawing of a letter H on gray paper was probably drawn between 2010 and 2015.
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I began the drawing on April 8, 2021. I completed artifying the wood frame the first week of May. 
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The artwork is a parody of the vision-harmful light-value, extremely light-value and low-to-nearly zero-contrast type-font and text used by Microsoft, Google and Facebook and their subsidiaries in all of their websites. My drawing has a full range of value, between light and dark.
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People viewing this artwork can test your visual perception: How many of the following can you find in the artwork:
Letters? Numbers? Words? (Various words are in different languages; most are in English.)

How many See-not Sea-beasts do you see?

How many eyes do you see in the drawing?
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Of human vision and the very poor graphic design of type-font and text developed by Microsoft for websites, which has been adopted by numerous internet website designers, and which has since morphed to all manner of unreadable, inaccessible hard-copy publication text design, even by museums such as art, history, natural history. Other industry giants using poor type design include Google and Facebook. Any type that is non black, non high-contrast and non-bold is not approved by any optometrists.
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Also see, in the Sight-seeing with Dignity art gallery: SWD 40, SWD 41, SWD 42 (parody drawings about the graphic design of the New York TImes hardcopy edition and online edition; the BBC website; and the Seattle Art Museum's hardcopy publications and website)

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Also see, in the Other Human Rights art gallery:
OHRA 2021 - KOMO-oh! TeE Vee & wEbsite! NEW! OPTOMETRY EXAM - WHICH LETTERS CAN YOU READ IN THE SEE-BEASTEE?
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Some vision health agencies: National Institute for the Blind: http://www.nib.org/resources
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Prevent Blindness: A Lifetime of Healthy Vision https://www.preventblindness.org/
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CDC Vision Health Institute https://www.cdc.gov/visionhealth/home... ~
National Eye Institute – National Institute of Health https://nei.nih.gov ~
The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) https://iapb.org
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American Optometric Association https://www.aoa.org/
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Vision UK https://www.visionuk.org.uk/
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National Eye Institute – UK https://nei.nih.gov

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Art © A K Segan