Many people rely on their intuition rather than their knowledge to discern the truth. Cognitive psychology shows that photos can trick us into recollecting false memories, and there is a fine line between seeing more and perceiving things that are not there. Having an open mind has been associated with proneness to mental illnesses such as hallucinations and schizophrenia.

For individuals high in openness, it appears that more visual information breaks through, allowing them to perceive things that others may screen out, as shown in the Selective Attention test by Simons & Chabris. On the other end of the spectrum, individuals with aphantasia only experience a void of darkness when attempting to imagine something. While there is no cure for this deficit, there is increasing evidence that personalities are malleable, and increases in openness have been observed during the effects of psilocybin. Exploring these phenomena, the Un-Seen installation reimagines perception as a recollection of visual memory by acting as a lens to the outside world. Distortions challenge cognitive intuition and encourage the unique processing of information, where one cannot see the same thing twice.