I've written a new book! It's full of gorgeous images covering the entire history of eye art. 

To be completely honest, the book got away from me. When I started out, I thought, "I'm going to put together a little book of eyes in art, before and after the Lover's Eyes I love so much. Oh boy, I hope there are enough examples for an entire book. I wonder how I'll pad it out..."

Well. Eyes go back to the earliest surviving examples of human art, and they're symbolically linked to the creation of good, evil, and nothing less than the whole universe. They're strange. They're mystical. They're omniscient. But they're also light-hearted, witty, and delightfully romantic. The more I started looking for eyes, the more I started seeing them everywhere in both historical and contemporary art. 

For example:

Egyptian wedjet eyes. Apotropaic evil eye talismans. Hindu and Buddhist third eyes. St. Lucy. Ex votos. Renaissance emblems. Queen Elizabeth's spy circle. Masonic symbolism. Alchemy. The All-seeing eye. Lover's eye miniatures. Curiosity cabinet eye models. Optometrist folk signs. The Countess of Castiglione. Post-war surrealism. Pop art. Pop surrealism. Embroidery art. Schiaparelli. Rebus jewelry. John Derian, Astier de Villatte, and other art-meets-homewares designers. Gucci. And many of your favorite contemporary artists.

What happens when you put together a book is that you notice something you wouldn't have noticed otherwise. My greatest concern as I was deep my book-writing cave with a messy bun and reading glasses surrounded by stacks of books and slips of paper and mugs of tea, was that all the crazy research wouldn't hang together. But what actually happened is that because all eye art has elements of the strange, the sacred, and the surreal, the oldest works have a contemporary edge to them, and the newest works have an ancient resonance.

I'm just adding some final edits to the book. Please note that this book cover is a placeholder, these images are a teaser while we finalize copyright, and I have know idea what the final price will be. :)

If you'd like to know when it's ready, then please sign up for the waitlist! You'll be first in line when it comes time to preorder (but you'll be in no way obligated to purchase when the time comes).