Chicago has an eye on you.  Literally.  Take a gander at the gigantic Chi-Town orb sitting outside the John Marshall Law School.  Do we really want to touch the bloody bits and share lunch under the shadow of a massive, disembodied, peeper?

Is that truly, unblinking, Panopticonic Eye, passively watching you, actively surveilling your every move, or is it just a dead — but still pretentious — piece of street art?

My fear is the Chicago Eyeball is just that — an artsy, painted, ball, with no real effect upon or shared harmony with — the environment in which it sits.

Now, if there were some sort of camera in the iris of the eye, recording every move — and the public could enter the back of the eye and watch from within what the eye has been seeing on a bank of flickering HD screens– then we would truly have an authentic piece of artwork that terrorizes at it tattles.

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    1. David Boles – New York City – David Boles was born in Nebraska and holds an MFA from the Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theatre Studies at Columbia University in the City of New York. He is an author, dramatist, editor, publisher, and teacher who writes across the live stage, print, radio, television, film, and the web. With more than 50 books in print, David continues to write 2MM words a year and has authored over 25K articles. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Authors Guild, and PEN America, and founded The United Stage advocacy platform on the principle that playwrights have a duty to direct their own work. Read the Prairie Voice Archive at Boles.com | Buy his books at David Boles Books Writing & Publishing at BolesBooks.com | Study with Script Professor at ScriptProfessor.com | Touch American Sign Language mastery at Hardcore ASL at HardcoreASL.com | Explore the Human Meme podcast at HumanMeme.com | Train with Boles Bells at BolesBells.com.
      David W. Boles says:

      Yeah, and that’s all it is, Gordon: “A Creepy Eye.” It could have been so much more and much more interesting as a test of individuality in the midst of being watched.

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    1. David Boles – New York City – David Boles was born in Nebraska and holds an MFA from the Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theatre Studies at Columbia University in the City of New York. He is an author, dramatist, editor, publisher, and teacher who writes across the live stage, print, radio, television, film, and the web. With more than 50 books in print, David continues to write 2MM words a year and has authored over 25K articles. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Authors Guild, and PEN America, and founded The United Stage advocacy platform on the principle that playwrights have a duty to direct their own work. Read the Prairie Voice Archive at Boles.com | Buy his books at David Boles Books Writing & Publishing at BolesBooks.com | Study with Script Professor at ScriptProfessor.com | Touch American Sign Language mastery at Hardcore ASL at HardcoreASL.com | Explore the Human Meme podcast at HumanMeme.com | Train with Boles Bells at BolesBells.com.
      David W. Boles says:

      Yes, I’m not sure why you’d want that giant eyeball just sitting there on the street. What an eyesore! SMILE!

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