I've written a new book!

It's full of gorgeous images covering the entire history of eye art. 

To be honest, the book got away from me. At first I thought, "I'm going to write a little book about eyes in art, before and after my beloved Lover's Eyes. I hope I find enough examples for a whole book!"

Well...

Eyes go back to the earliest 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: Egyptian wedjet eyes, evil eyes, third eyes, ex votos, all-seeing eyes, lover's eye miniatures, curiosity cabinet eye models, optometrist folk signs, post-war surrealism, pop surrealism, Schiaparelli, Gucci, Fornasetti, John Derian, Astier de Villatte, Jonathan Adler, and many of your favorite contemporary artists.

My greatest concern as I was deep in research - with a messy bun and reading glasses, surrounded by stacks of books and slips of paper and mugs of tea - was that all the different eyes wouldn't work 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.