The Spiral
Color Pencil on Paper, Digital (Procreate)
2024

In one way or another, the great revolution had taken place: all of a sudden, around us, eyes were opening, and corneas and irises and pupils: the swollen, colorless eye of polyps and cuttlefish, the dazed and gelatinous eyes of bream and mullet, the protruding and peduncled eyes of crayfish and lobsters, the bulging and faceted eyes of flies and ants… All these eyes were mine. I had made them possible; I had had the active part; I furnished them the raw material, the image.

——The Spiral, The Complete Cosmicomics, Italo Calvino