The Watcher was inspired by The Night Land, William Hope Hodgson’s 1912 science fiction novel. Its unsettling atmosphere led me to explore the feeling of a watchful presence—silent and motionless, yet aware of everything around it.
An eye-shaped form surrounds a pale sphere, drawing the viewer’s attention toward its centre. Elevated on a tapered wooden base, the sculpture takes on the presence of an observer. Basalt, bronze, maple, and walnut bring contrasting colours and surfaces together, giving this imagined presence a physical form.
We usually approach art as observers, free to examine it without being noticed ourselves. In The Watcher, that relationship is reversed: the artwork appears to watch us back. The sculpture invites us to consider the uneasy boundary between looking and being seen, and to imagine what awareness might lie behind its silent gaze.
