Holy fuck.
I never knew about this until literally 15 minutes ago. I can't find any info on the thing(no wiki page or anything for the arttwork as far as I can find, I just keep getting links to WoW?), but this is truly amazing.
"Oculus", 1998, World Trade Center Station.
Created by Kristin Jones and Andrew Ginzel, Oculus consists of 300 different mosaic eyes, all based upon actual human eyes taken from photographs–not computer generated.
The floor entails an elliptical glass and stone mosaic floor with a micro mosaic eye at the center of an ultramarine vortex with the image of the City of New York woven into the picture. This All-Seeing Eye, laid under the World Trade Towers, sends shockwaves around the world.
Location; Chambers Street/World Trade Center Station, directly below what is now Ground Zero.
Oculus -Architectural term:
"In archaeology, oculus is the name given to a motif found in western European prehistoric art. It consists of a pair of circular or spiral marks, often interpreted as eyes, and appears on pottery, statues and megaliths. The oculus motif may represent the watchful gaze of a god or goddess and was especially common during the Neolithic period."
I figured this was epic picture worthy, as it is on many levels, quite epic. That and the scale of the mosaic. I wish there were better images out there of this. Probably heaps of small detail.
The most exciting part though, is that, I think this thing is now buried (again, only known about it for like 20 minutes now, can't find info), which adds another level of awesomeness to this. It's become it's very own ancient artwork. People will dig it up in years to come and be like "wow, the fuck is this spooky thing doing down here".
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