Always Watching; Public Art

This is a picture of a painting on West 8th street near St. Marks. I was really taken a back when I first saw the painting on the corner of the street across from where I was. In this picture you can only see one side of the eye but on the block there’s a painting of another eye on the opposite side of the corner. In real life it seems as if it’s watching your every movement. In a way it’s kind of eerie that two sides of a wall on the corner of a block is just looking back at you with huge eyes. I find the drawing of the eye itself interesting because a lot of thought must have been put into it before they chose what to draw. There must have been some meaning in the eye and it’s as if the artist himself is announcing that someone is watching the city’s movement. I think the drawing itself it amazing and unique but I wouldn’t really want it to be on a corner of my neighborhood. I wonder how people feel when they walk by it or see it from afar in the middle of the night. When you’re walking up close by the drawing, you can’t really see the significance of it. From afar though you can really feel the intensity of the eye and how it stares straight at you.