A goal I have is to include difficult themes and things that hit me hard on my artwork. Hadn’t realized until now I’ve already done that with one of those topics: eyes. I’ve never mentioned the significance of eyes for me. They’re one of my favorite things to draw. As a younger immigrant who didn’t speak the language, observation was the way I navigated the world. I’m a very visual person, I need to see things to understand them. Everything I do involves my eyes. Eyes and sight have strong significance to me. I have a chronic eye condition that has been dormant for the past six years until very recently. I had forgotten it’s with me because it’s been dormant for so long. But I also don’t remember what it’s like to have perfect vision as it’s been with me most of my life. When the condition is active, my world kind of falls apart. When it’s active, it’s very painful, it’s difficult to use sight, and my eyes become very sensitive to light. It’s been a frustrating and very painful time past couple of weeks. Thankfully I’m receiving treatment under care of specialists. Improvement and relief are slow but they’re happening. I can’t wait to be healthy again and resume normal life. In the mean time, I share some of my favorite eyes with titles and notes for each one below:
1 - Morrigan: anger and energy on a single gaze
2 - it’s not me: the light coming from the eye symbolizes that what you see is truth
3 - Crescent: we receive light through our eyes, therefore they’re a source of light of sorts
4 - Death: the melancholy eyes that accept reality
5 - Can’t scream: the top eyes are blacked out in terror as thymes can’t see beyond fear. The bottom eye continues to observe the horror but aren’t able to speak out (sleep paralysis)
6 - Louis: the conflicting vision of recently becoming a vampire vs the lingering sadness of formerly being human
7 - unfinished drawing. Thinking of revisiting it as it’s kind of close what my illness feels like
8 - llorona: her eyes are darkened with sadness and the wish to change her past
9 - judgement: burning eye, be aware of your actions and their consequences
10 - insomnia: can’t keep eyes closed and it feels worse than it is
11 - Madeleine: creatures coexisting as one have multi points of view
12 - dark flame: wisdom is observant
13 - cryptids: death reflecting on the eyes (an idea inspired by the movie the book of life
14 - left hand: goat eye inside human eyelids with little demon eyes accompanying it.
15 -conjure: a powerful and intense eye intense like blood
16 - ribibit: little creatures are more aware of their surroundings than what they may appear
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