Without a body or face to convey expression, Eye in the Sky is reduced to a single eye compulsively watching the rapidly changing channels on a television screen that is reflected in its iris. As the eye consumes endless fragments of weather broadcasts, game shows, and commercials, we imagine what effects popular culture's obsession with television has on our psyches. Like some strange creature from a science fiction film or surrealist dream sequence, Oursler's disembodied eye is a metaphor for the human condition in a media-saturated age.
Oursler's work has similarities to our own piece.
We were wanting to project onto a similar lense or rounded shape for the installation as this fits in perfectly with our project. As our piece is all about the mind, the mind's eye and eye's, seeing, imagining, day-dreaming it would be good to reflect this in its projection, the rounded shape or the lense shape would reflect this really well.
Carol's going to cover a work out ball with papier-mache and bring it in for Tuesday lesson to see if it will work. Hopefully it will as i feel it would add to the overall outcome of the project.
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