The visual system is the primary mechanism by which we perceive the world. Through it we identify, spot movement, distinguish between colors, understand what is near and what is far. Light rays pass through the pupil and land on the retina, and its light sensors relay information through the optic nerve to the brain. It is a system that is accustomed to filling in details even when they are hidden. It deciphers, reconstructs, and fills in missing information. Our vision is perceptual: it constructs reality based on interpretation, not only on information coming from the outside.

Hadas Hassid chooses to close her eyes in order to open up another possible world. She examines how we close our eyes and see various shapes and colors. This phenomenon occurs already in childhood in that game whereby you press your eyes slightly in order to see stars—a game that teaches us about the latent possibilities of our visual system, about huge expanses that exist somewhere or nowhere, so accessible and close.