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1) 🎨 Eyes stare at you from everyday objects, in Robyn Rich’s art
The artist Robyn Rich has a new project called Optics, in which she paints eyes on various small containers and everyday objects like spoons. It’s eerie-looking stuff, eh?
What does it mean to see? To be seen? Artist Robyn Rich (previously) examines these questions in her practice as she paints realistic eyes that peer out from vintage tins and small vessels. The tiny works harness physical particularities to relay the emotions and idiosyncrasies of the subject, whether through thick brows, wrinkles, or mascaraed lashes that frame the delicate organs. Intimate and unsettling when displayed in large collections, the miniature pieces explore various aspects of the gaze and perspective and ask who is watching whom.
Eyes are such evocative symbols of our inner selves; they really give an uncanniness to anything you put them on…
