Under Sight utilizes the medium of light and the night sky as a democratic canvas. Cassils employs Morse code to transmit a list of words deemed suspect by US federal agencies. This growing list is being scrubbed from US government websites and documents in an attempt to remove all references not only to diversity, equity and inclusion, but also to myriad issues such as climate change and vaccines.
See the words list here.


Under Sight shines light on the insidious nature of censorship. Using powerful blasts of light that are visible for miles, the deployment of these words is not a distress signal, but a signal calling for collective action across imposed national borders and strategically siloed subjectivities. The Under Sight app, is a free and downloadable smart phone ap that decodes mores code in real time using your devices camera as a sensor.
“Our resistance is not predicated on how likely it will be to alter the conscience of the oppressor. We resist to retain our own conscience. And to awaken all others who are still in possession of their own souls.”



UNDERSIGHT, 2025
Artist: Cassils
Lighting Artist:
Christopher Kuhl
Exhibition:
From here, there, everywhere
Curator: Renata Azevedo Moreira
Neighbourhood:
Humber Polytechnic Lakeshore Campus
Thank you to Christopher Kuhl for lighting design, Jay Poole for fabrication consultation, and CBell for web and graphic design.