This glass mosaics and etched stone piece by artist Peter Sis adorns the platform walls of the 86th Street subway station on the Upper East Side. It is entitled Happy City, and was completed in 2004.
My friend Guillermo is always talking about the Illuminati and the Freemasons, and his conspiracy theories are so ingrained into my consciousness that when I now see the ever pervasive symbols, such as that of the all-seeing eye, I can't help but think of occultism.
And speaking of eye symbolism, a brilliant film that heavily features eyes in a symbolic form, as the windows to the soul and as the eyes of providence, is Ridley Scott's 1982 sci-fi masterpiece Blade Runner:
"And now I'm riding/ All over this island/ Looking for something / To open my eyes" --Bright Eyes, Train Under Water
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