In the late 1990s John Pule departed from the busy pattern and narrative-filled grids of his earlier work and sought a simplified pictorial plane that expressed his engagement with Niuean mythology, and broader issues of migration, colonialism, and Christianity. The work Dazzled eyes is divided into two black and white panels and in the top half, in ornate calligraphy, Pule has printed text in Niuean. Like his work Agaaga (Acc. no. 2005.214), text and image appear as mirror reflections of each other, recalling Pule's dual career as visual artist and writer. In Dazzled eyes Pule depicts a road leading to a weeping moon or sun while in the foreground a small figure kneels to support another prone figure: both appear to gaze towards the horizon. The tears suggest dislocation, pain, and loss following migration, and are indirectly autobiographical.