Martinez’s optical glass works explore the thresholds of perception itself. These pieces don’t rely on mimetic realism, but on phenomenological experience—how light, refraction, and spatial distortion affect what we think we see. The sculptures invite a shift in awareness, where the viewer becomes conscious of their own looking.

Rooted in the perceptual investigations of Op Art and the experiential concerns of the Light and Space movement, these works align with artists like Bridget Riley, Larry Bell, and James Turrell—not in surface aesthetics, but in intent: to make vision an active process.

Martinez asks us not just to observe, but to feel vision. These sculptures aren't objects with meaning—they are events unfolding in time and space. Their clarity conceals complexity, much like our everyday habits of seeing.