For this project, I was inspired by Penelope Umbrico’s Sunset’s From Flicker and Everyone’s Photos Any License. She used pictures that other people have taken of the sun and moon to create a large collage essentially creating a new piece of art itself. I chose the subject of eyes because in class we have mentioned repeatedly that we feel as if eyes are the gateway to someone’s soul. I was interested in seeing how many people also thought that way and was amazed at how many images of eyes I could find as well as the digitally manipulated art of eyes as well as studio art of eyes I could find on the internet. Searching “eyes” on google will give you 3,700,000,000 results. For my project I didn’t want to give the pictures a grid and their own space within the full image like Penelope did in her images, rather I wanted to present them together overlaying each other so as you look into one eye you are interrupted by another and you look to that next eye and on to the next. I sorted the eyes so it would flow from light to dark and eye color that were similar were in the general location of each other. I incorporated real eyes with digitally manipulated eyes with hyper-realistic paintings/drawings. I wanted to show the interested we have humans have into peering into someone’s eyes to see who they are.