In an article rewritten from an interview with Diana Nemiroff, Dave Thomas explains his installation "Behind the Eye Lies the Hand of William Henry Fox Talbot" as an attempt to construct an impossible history of seeing if Industrial Capitalism had never existed. Using the idea of the divided eye, described as "the opposition between two fundamental ways of seeing" one subjective, the other objective, Thomas explores photography's expressive features and simultaneously its documentary features. This is expressed in his use of photography pioneer William Henry Fox Talbot and Soviet Cinema pioneer Dziga Vertov as symbols of this opposition.