Postcard from Chicago–Here’s Looking at You

Now this is something you don’t see everyday…and you won’t be seeing it for much longer if you live in Chicago.

This is a 30 foot sculpture of artist Tony Tasset’s eyeball. “What?” you say. True enough. It’s a piece of art designed to help attract tourists, or so its rumored. Well, it attracted me anyway…the Tucson tourist. It’s made of steel reinforced fiberglass and it costs somewhere in the six figures, though Tasset is not very forthcoming about specific dollar figures.

The sculpture is installed at Pritzker Park on State Street in downtown Chicago, but will be taken down after Halloween (how appropriate is that). So if you are in Chicago sometime in the next two weeks, be sure and drop by. 

I will have more images and stories from my most recent trip to Chicago coming soon.