SPOONS

The works in this gallery form a series of detailed oil paintings of eyes on metal spoons.  I wanted to make paintings that looked back at the viewer, and I relished the challenge of depicting the convex eye on the concave surface of the spoon.  These paintings also reference the idea of the optogram, the image that forms on the retina of the eye.  In the late Victorian era, it was believed by some that the eye could retain this image after death, a false belief that led to the idea that a retinal image, if developed like a photographic film, could provide evidence in murder trials.