The Westport Local Press

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Tunnel Vision: Seeing 20/20 after Full Restoration

Members of the public, hand models, and local artists gathered in the tunnel between Main Street and Parker Harding Plaza to celebrate the restoration of the Tunnel Vision public art project. Artist Miggs Burroughs unveiled the original displays in Spring of 2014 - each of the boxes featuring a lenticular image and a story behind it. After several seasons and thousands of passersby over the years, the boxes required updating of the images and the lighting behind them. An online fundraiser was launched and today the finished restorations showed brilliant, vivid images that continue to tell stories to those who pass by them. Lenticular images are a specialty medium for Burroughs, who uses the format to create an image that changes as one moves past it.