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I used Photoshop and a Wacom table to create a .gif file to represent my experience of the piece. My work is a set of colored concentric circles that move as if the viewer were falling down through a tunnel. At the center of the piece are two bright orange eyes that stare straight ahead and occasionally blink.

I was trying to capture both the uncomfortable feeling Nauman’s work gave me as well as the idea of hypnotism that his work put into my head. I think the moving concentric circles do a good job of conveying the idea of hypnotism, while the orange eyes create an uncomfortable feeling. I don’t think a static image would have captured the same experience, which is why I chose to make a .gif. Having multiple frames allowed me to create the sense of being sucked into a colorful tunnel and made the eyes seem more lifelike by allowing them to blink.

Here is a link to my work: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzzm02DRmm5jTjhUb2pUbmZ6Mkk/view?usp=sharing

Below are the eight frames of the file, in case the link doesn't work: