This is more experimental than anything else---an attempt at creating a visceral experience of a first person transformation for the viewer that blends the visual and tactile sense modalities---two senses that are highly responsible for body-representation in the mind, apart from the many sub-level senses (i.e. motor-neural feedback from limbs, spacial awareness, etc.). I recommend saving the image to your computer and viewing it full screen with your face about 12-15inches from the monitor (dependent upon your screen size), eyes forward, trying to "look past" the image and not focus on any one element. Also try touching your nose on the left side without placing your in your field of vision in order to create a parallel tactile sensation.

I couldn't find any decent attempts at representing how a horse's vision might be interpreted by the human brain, so I had to go off of what I know about the physical make up of the eye (of course, the phenomenal experience of being a horse and seeing through his or her eyes might not be remotely like the experience of being a human, so I will drop these more continental notions for now, in favor of the idea that similar physiological structures translate to similar mental representations).

In any case, horses are unable to see the red spectrum, but are quite able to see blue and green, hence, at least to what I feel, the somewhat "alien-ness" of the color scheme. In the image I had to mess around with the background quite a bit---the area toward the nose will overlap the images of the left and right eyes because the individual's eyes are just starting to move to the side of his head. I tried to imitate the extended lateral field of vision by wrapping the entire three sides of a wall into a single panoramic image and bending it outwards, some of these effects are more subtle than others. Finally, I messed with contrasts of sharpness in order to give a greater sense of difference between what is seen and the bodily self. Some of this is also to imitate the change from stereoscopic to monoscopic vision. In any case, I hope you enjoy this! I am sure there are individual who are more knowledgeable than I about the effects of lenses in the eye, who may be photographers. If there is something that is visually inaccurate, I would be happy for the critique. All other things aside, some inaccuracies, again, contribute to the feeling of otherness, I hope.

High Resolution version: http://www.flickr.com/photos/802514.....n/photostream/