Eyeball

After class on Friday I went to Barnes and Noble to pick up the books for class, and I noticed Tony Tasset's "Eye" right across the street. Because Prof. Yood talked out it in lecture, and because I'd never seen it before, I crossed the street to look at it. I witnessed a rally by the "End the Fed" folks. A man was standing right under the iris of "Eye" shouting into a bullhorn. It was a small rally (the only security they had was one bored bicycle cop), but I find it really interesting that "Eye" has become a landmark so quickly. I also find it fitting that the rally took place in the shadow of this particular sculpture because these people think they're seeing something that the rest of America is not.

I loved seeing that sculpture, the size of a small building, among the stone architecture and the rally-ers. The presence of the eye made the rally less serious and more surreal. I witnessed first-hand that sculpture's ability to affect its area.

-Jess