painting of the month

Waterfall -- Arthur Dove, 1925 (The Phillips Collection)

the lost eye

It seems that the large blue mystery eye that recently washed up on a Florida beach belonged to a swordfish, pretty callously cut from the fish itself and tossed aside but maybe that's just how the fisherman's world goes.  Still, the first thing I thought of when I saw the news item was Odilon Redon's Eye Balloon, and then Redon's Cyclops as well.  One eye alone can look so reproachful, even if it belongs to a Cyclops or a balloon or a once mighty fish.

Pictured: Swordfish eye; Eye Balloon and Cyclops (Odilon Redon, 1840-1916)