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ALL EYES ON YOU

At one point in time, eyes kept popping up in my timelines and I started to curate. Maybe because I inherited my great grandfathers big eyes, that it is something I notice? But when the Covid pandemic started changing the world, it felt wrong to post a blog with this subject. It made me feel uneasy, as if all these eyes resembled the many people who lost their lives to the virus. This blogpost became real life, and it wasn't positive. 

Nowadays it feels normal again and when I read more about the origin of eye miniatures, it lost it's strange feeling. So, after years, finally the post I wanted to make from the start. 

Eye miniatures are believed to have originated when the Prince of Wales (later George IV) felt the need to send the widow Maria Fitzherbert a token of his love. This gesture and the romance that went with it was frowned upon by the court, so a miniaturist was employed to paint only the eye and thereby preserve anonymity and decorum. Reportedly Maria’s eye miniature was worn by George IV, hidden under his lapel. This is regarded as the origin of lovers' eyes becoming fashionable, appearing between 1790 and the 1820s in the courts and affluent families of England, Russia, France and more rarely, America. (Source: Wikipedia)


Mural with eyes on a pop-up store in Brooklyn New York
 Ripped jeans patch with an eye on the kne. The knee seems to look at you now. 
Broche with an eye surrounded by silver leafs
Two eye doorknobs
Two kids with eye prints on their backhands. Holding the backhands in front of their eyes
A blouse with eyes printed in the buttonholes. The button is the eye's iris. Closed, the eye is complete.Different face parts with face skin, cut loose. Like squares have bin cut out of a face.3 embroidered broches with eyes
ceramic tile faces
The cup has black and white picture eyes on the inside, and a mouth on the front. The two combined make a perfect face
A wall filled with eye portraits, Classic style
An embroidered eye in contemporary style.
A pile of leaflike eyes
Eyes painted on natural materials like parlemoer.
Locket with painted Eye

From top to bottom: Toms, via Michel, art by Lyndie Dourthe, DIY by Siebenschoen Design, enamels painting by Linda Darty via Pinterest, via Pinterest (original source unkown), Amanda Vargas, via Pinterest (original source unknown), The Eye Of Male Mortality by Blumenfeld from 1947 via the Tumblr of Boudhabar, Broches by Celeste Mogador via Merci, via Eyespired.nl, via Pinterest (original source unknown), art by N4Joy, altered porcelein cup and saucer by More Than Porcelein (old picture from the Etsy store), via Pinterest (original source unknown), via Pinterest (original source unknown), art by Anna van Bohemen, art by Gregory Raymond Halili, Lover's eyes ca. 1940's from The MET. I've not been able to trace back all the sources. If you have any idea: please leave me a message so I can credit. 

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