Eye See You!

Ever get the feeling that you are being watched?  Well, if you are touring the Dallas area, there is a pretty good chance that someone or some-thing might just, in fact, have its eye on you.  And it is not bothering to pretend not to stare.

The sculpture that captures your eye (wow, even I have to groan at my puns) is a giant 30 foot tall ocular oddity simply named "Eye" by the artist Tony Tasset. 

It's modeled after the artist's own eyeball and serves to echo pop culture elements, feelings of surveillance, themes of knowledge and power and the shared experience of living.

 

If you're unfamiliar with Tasset's other work, this isn't his first trip down unsettling alley. His "Capuchine Chandelier" is a skeletal tribute to the mummies of the Capuchin Monastery, and he also created a depressed Paul Bunyan slumped in a field, as well as some eternal snowmen.

Go ahead and take a moment to google some of his other work, I actually found it to be rather stimulating and thought-provoking.

The sculpture will only be in the Downtown area for a limited time as part of a temporary exhibit.  Eventually, I like to imagine that Dallas will get tired of it always having its eye on them and will start to scream "Stop Looking At Me!!"  So I suggest you get by there as soon as possible to experience this eye-sore for yourself!  (ok, yes, I'm done now. "Eye" promise!)