MARCH 2018 - THIS week's PICTURE

Montreal Eye: photo by Malcolm Aslett

The Pompidou center has a lot to answer for. All those huge pipes that may or may not be doing something going from one place to another in a highly observable fashion.

But the main component of this photo is the eye. The common shape that happily(?) is created when the viewer scans a wide enough rectangle. I’ve never thought about it before but why is an eye eye shaped? The eye ball is round. Some creatures have essentially round eye shapes. Other primates have rounder eyes, surely. But the human eye is a streamlined affair. Old squinty. Which is what we have here.

It is in Montreal, part of the Biodome. But no architect creates an array of windows with the prospect of them looking like an eye. Would be my guess. And, oddly, this is a difficult thing to see except in retrospect. In the action of the world this shape escapes our attention. Maybe we should look more carefully.

 

 

 

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