This is one of my favourite designs. I created these bad boys after becoming fascinated with the word mydriasis, and during a period when I was deeply inspired by South American civilizations and by the symbolic force of the jaguar. While drawing jaguar heads, I ended up creating two MK23 jaguars: one more altered and vibrant, the other darker, black and white, and seemingly blind. Together they became The Blind Jaguar.

What interested me was not simply blindness, but the unstable relationship between vision and perception. I wanted the work to stay open, leaving uncertain which of the two is truly blind and which one actually sees. One may appear deprived of sight, yet still remain connected to a deeper form of perception. The other may still have the eyes, but be cut off from reality in another way.

Part of that idea came from my fascination with altered states and with the thought that substances like LSD can, by shutting down parts of the brain, also open other forms of perception. In that space, the more consciousness bends, the more reality itself becomes flexible, unstable, and open to transformation. So the question inside the work is never fully resolved: is blindness the absence of vision, or can it become another way of seeing? And if the eyes are open, does that really mean that truth is still visible?

Through these two jaguars, I wanted to create a tension between instinct, hallucination, symbolism, and awareness, leaving the viewer inside that uncertainty.