A goal of my blog is to share my perspective when looking at art, reading literature, listening to music, or viewing a film; perhaps, offering you, the reader, another view. As the artist Paul Klee stated, “Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.” I think it is always important to open one’s eyes and mind to new discoveries within oneself and in the world.

In a ‘house’ of magnificent art sometimes it is the smallest of objects make the biggest impression, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art I lose myself in thought and time, wondering through the galleries. During my last visit I spent a couple of those hours in the Greek and Roman art galleries with my son, a fan of Greek Mythology. There, I found these magnificent eyes. Looking more contemporary than ancient, as if made for a Tim Burton animation, in fact, they are speculated to be from the 5^th Century B.C. as a part of a larger sculpture and crafted from marble, bronze, frit, quartz, and obsidian.

These tiny orbs, for me, revealed the timeless symbolism in the eyes, as windows to our soul, as portals to our visionary experiences, and, precisely attuned and in focus while wondering the Met’s galleries.