This striking, freestanding Stoneware Eye from New York artist Michele Quan is hand painted. 

Says Michele of the eye motif, "These Eyes are about looking deeply even if it is not convenient. Made of converging lines radiating inward and out, representing our self and our collective universal self. In Egyptian, Greek and Roman mythology, peacock feathers were considered much like the eye, they were all-seeing. ‘And the trick is to stay propped up for 50 or 60 or 70 or 80 or 90 years. Yes eyes open while the flies get stuck in the paper and the great paintings are stolen and the faithful wives run off with the unfaithful lovers, all to die in the morning, unclasped and cold and kissless’." 

Michele Quan is originally from Vancouver, Canada and moved to New York City in 1984 to study graphic design & photography at Parsons School of Design. For twelve years prior to embarking on her current medium of clay, she worked in metal and co-founded the NYC jewelry company Me&Ro. Her mixed media and ceramic work continues an ongoing pursuit to bring visual form to our internal landscape and locate the thread that connects us with the experience of the world we live. Michele works out of her studio in Brooklyn and lives in NYC with her husband, daughter and dog, Sparrow.

Visit www.mquan.com to see more of Ms. Quan's work. 

Details:

Measures approximately 8.25” h. x 12.5” w. x 1.75" d.

Made in NYC