"Do Not Look Into The Eyes" - Erik Pirolt

http://www.pirolt.org/index.php?/architecture/do-not-look-into-the-eyes/

In this piece, an artist had a sculpture of a head inside a glass case. It was labeled with a warning not to look at the sculpture in the eyes, yet people instinctively did anyways. It would then spray water out of its eyes in the direction of the viewer. This is an interesting piece because it involves eye contact, but not with another human. Even though eye contact is important in forging human connection, it is still something that we seek out with non-human objects. This piece asks whether such eye contact can have the same effect as if it were between two humans, which is an interesting thing to think about when creating our own piece - how does the fact that the eye contact occurs strictly between two people affect the outcome? We thought about that and how the human-to-human connection is created by eye contact in our piece, adding sounds to intensify the experience.