Behind the Eyes explores the mystery of the inner self and the limits of what we can ever truly know about another person.
Piercing blue eyes dominate the composition, surrounded by saturated color, distorted features, and flowing abstract forms. Faces and shapes seem to emerge, disappear, and reorganize themselves as the viewer moves through the image.
The eyes become the boundary between two worlds.
On one side is the person we encounter: the face, the expression, the identity presented to the world. Behind it exists something infinitely more complicated—memory, fear, desire, imagination, contradiction, experience, and thought.
We often believe that looking into someone's eyes allows us to understand them. But perhaps the eyes reveal only enough to remind us how much remains hidden.
The longer Behind the Eyes is viewed, the more uncertain the relationship becomes.
Are we looking into the figure?
Or is something behind those eyes looking back at us?
Fine art reproduction of an original work by Michael J. Thomas for Khaos Art Studios.