Exit Vectors: I See Them

Prompt: A singularity of observation - countless brass lenses, mirrors, and mechanical eyes spiraling into a central point of impossible darkness. Victorian astronomical instruments merge with organic forms. Light behaves wrongly, bending and fragmenting. Deep copper tones with void-like blacks. Inspired by religious mandalas meets scientific instruments. Creative Process: There was something peculiarly intimate about painting an eye that stares back with such intensity. it reminded me of that time i found an ancient medical illustration from the 1800s, where the anatomist had drawn the patient's eye with an almost obsessive detail - as if trying to capture the last glimpse of consciousness before it faded. the void at the center pulled everything into its orbit, like a black hole made of flesh and fear. i wanted the iris to feel like a solar eclipse made of skin tones, where the darkness at the center wasn't just an absence of light, but a presence of something unknowable..