The Watcher

£35.00

Something is watching you. You have felt this. Everyone has — the certainty of being observed from a direction that cannot be named, in a room that was empty a moment ago. Most of us move through this feeling quickly. Turn on a light. Rationalise.

This workshop does not rationalise.

The eye appears everywhere in the oldest images we have — in temples, on hands, on the wings of angels so strange the prophets who saw them could not describe them without terror. In Ezekiel's vision the creatures that carry the throne of God are covered in eyes. All of them open. None of them blinking. Watching everything at once without rest.

But the eye does not only watch us. We are always watching too. The watcher and the watched are not as separate as we imagine.

In this workshop we sit with the eye as a watcher. We ask what it means to be watched, to watch. We follow the image through art, through mythology, through the uncanny corners of cinema and poetry where it keeps appearing uninvited.

*Cabinet events are recorded and archived for Patreon subscribers — a growing library for those who cannot attend live. By booking a place you are consenting to the session being recorded.

Something is watching you. You have felt this. Everyone has — the certainty of being observed from a direction that cannot be named, in a room that was empty a moment ago. Most of us move through this feeling quickly. Turn on a light. Rationalise.

This workshop does not rationalise.

The eye appears everywhere in the oldest images we have — in temples, on hands, on the wings of angels so strange the prophets who saw them could not describe them without terror. In Ezekiel's vision the creatures that carry the throne of God are covered in eyes. All of them open. None of them blinking. Watching everything at once without rest.

But the eye does not only watch us. We are always watching too. The watcher and the watched are not as separate as we imagine.

In this workshop we sit with the eye as a watcher. We ask what it means to be watched, to watch. We follow the image through art, through mythology, through the uncanny corners of cinema and poetry where it keeps appearing uninvited.

*Cabinet events are recorded and archived for Patreon subscribers — a growing library for those who cannot attend live. By booking a place you are consenting to the session being recorded.