Eye of the Beholder

Eye of the Beholder is a cluster of four glowing eyes that fit into one another like a blooming flower. From a distance they read as cosmic irises or rose windows; up close they fracture into a dense geometry of shards and spokes, a pattern that never quite resolves into something you can name. The work sits somewhere between ornament and organism – familiar enough to feel like a face, abstract enough to stay slightly uncanny.

The title hints at a simple question: who is looking at whom? We’re used to thinking of ourselves as the observers, but here the balance tilts. Stand in front of the piece and it’s hard not to feel watched. The circular forms suggest pupils; the shifting light feels like slow blinking, or a gaze that keeps adjusting to the dark. Beauty, the work suggests, is not a stable property of an object. It’s a moment of encounter, a loop between seeing and being seen. In that loop, your own presence is part of the artwork.

Unlike interactive installations, these eyes are indifferent to you. They don’t track your movements or react to your gestures any more than a fireplace cares who is sitting beside it or a shoreline cares who walks through the waves. The light patterns go on with or without you. Your only task is to share the room with them for a while – to let your thoughts settle, let the gaze fall both ways, and maybe allow the work to whisper its quiet counter-question back at you: Aren’t you beautiful?