The eye has it

By Micah Maidenberg July 1, 2010

(Chicago Journal) The eye stares east from a steel berth in Pritzker Park at Van Buren and State, watching as lines of commuters board the southbound buses and pedestrians amble out of restaurants. Thirty feet high, with lines of bloodshot red tracing across the sclera, “Eye,” is a sculpture designed by Tony Tasset, an artist and professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago.

Tasset’s eyes, which are a medium shade of blue set off by his white hair, formed the basis of the sculpture. “I had a very super close-up photograph taken of it,” he said. On a recent morning, he watched as construction workers finished assembling the piece.

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