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Go Inside These Giant Eyes for a Fascinating Perspective of the Surrounding City

As you go throughout your day, you're probably used to seeing cameras. They're in shops, on the street, and available to anyone with a cell phone. In fact, they're so commonplace, you might not even notice them anymore. Belgian artists Pascal Leboucq and Lucas De Man have created an art installation with this idea in mind. Their piece entitled EYE features five larger-than-life pupils (all in different locales) that see everything around them. Only, instead of watching you, they give you the opportunity to look at your surroundings from the artwork's perspective.

Each interactive piece seats one visitor at a time. A specially-trained usher assists you onto a chair, secures your seat belt, and wheels you through the window and out into the eye. You then experience hanging outside of the building from inside the pupil. It offers a fascinating look at the city of ‘s-Hertogenbosch; you're able to see everything from a unique vantage point and take in the people, places, and things all at once.

EYE is on view for 40 days and it will tour internationally in 2015. Visit the website to buy tickets and learn where each pupil is located.

EYE website
via [Optically Addicted]

Sara Barnes

Sara Barnes is a Staff Editor at My Modern Met, Manager of My Modern Met Store, and co-host of the My Modern Met Top Artist Podcast. As an illustrator and writer living in Seattle, she chronicles illustration, embroidery, and beyond through her blog Brown Paper Bag and Instagram @brwnpaperbag. She wrote a book about embroidery artist Sarah K. Benning titled 'Embroidered Life' that was published by Chronicle Books in 2019. Sara is a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art. She earned her BFA in Illustration in 2008 and MFA in Illustration Practice in 2013.
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