The Recursive Panopticon investigates the role digital degradation and its corresponding links to the nature of recursion take in relation to the 21st Century image. Created by placing methods of capture upon methods of display, The Recursive Panopticon hopes to discern how the function of a system being observed affects its output by allowing a glimpse into the cracks and faults of its methods. By holding a mirror up to the all seeing eye and seeking to understand the system through its recursive, atrophied output.