As for why it’s eyes that pop up, there is both a fun reason and a more serious point to the work.
The lighter aspect is straightforward, as the artist likes “the idea that people can spot them and think of it like a wee game, where you see another one, and another.
“It’s like a trail for kids, like when you had the lions all around Paisley years ago.”
That is a reference to the Pride of Paisley trail in 2016, where 25 large colourful lion sculptures, and a further 40 small ones, were dotted all around the area.
More complicated reasons are behind the art itself.
“We walk around cities and towns but most of our interaction these days is done online, and it’s so visible what you do and say (on the internet),” the artist said.
“Companies see everything you do and can profit from it, so there is that undercurrent to the eyes as well.
“Having all those wee eyes everywhere is like ‘I see you, do you see you’? We’re all here and living our lives in public…
“People can whip out their phones and just capture anything that happens and put it on a digital space. There is a permanency to that.”
