Eyes at Battery Park City

Artist: Louise Bourgeois

Collection: The Battery Conservancy

Date: Constructed, 1995

Resting directly on the ground a calculated distance from each other, the two eyes occupy considerable volumes of space between and around them which the viewer is invited to fill in with his or her own imagination, since the eyes are separated from any suggested surrounding physiognomy. Carved in granite, the pupils are not inset but suggested by large polished nodules and an integral part of the whole granite "eyeball."