Eye of the Beholder
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Eye of the Beholder ∞
Eye of the Beholder
48 x 36 inches
Acrylic, feathers, mirror shards, and mixed media on canvas
A gaze too ancient to blink. A spell too layered to name.
At the apex of a multicolored pyramid, the owl’s lone eye pierces through veils and viewers alike. Echoing Minerva’s watchful wisdom, its gaze is not merely observant — it is participatory. The feathers, lining the form of the owl, whisper of silent flight and unseen judgment. Around the owl’s eye and behind the pyramid, a verdant ouroboros coils and consumes itself, looping revelation and concealment in elegant recursion.
To the right, mirror shards glint like scattered truths — a Platonic cave rethreaded in reverse. This time, it is the watchers who must reckon with illusion, their own reflections shattering the idea of passive observation.
There are no safe spectators here.
To behold this painting is to be beheld.
To dare approach is to flirt with gnosis.
Once it sees you, it remembers.
