EYE TO EYE

Eye to Eye is a companion piece to Turn a Blind Eye in that both explore an absence of connection. Perched atop stylized maple branches two seemingly identical but distinct (facing opposite directions) magpies form a flock. Rather than looking away from the viewer, like the canaries in Turn a Blind Eye, these birds face one another, but their stares go astray. They form an intricate, interwoven pattern; yet they look past, over and under each other, not quite seeing the others in the group. Like much of our work this piece investigates ideas of how we can look and not actually see; how we can feel an absence even when we are surrounded by things; and how items need not literally disappear to be out of reach.