THE WATCHER
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 watch, to be watched. We follow the image through art, through mythology, through the uncanny corners of cinema and poetry where it keeps appearing uninvited.
All of them open.
None of them blinking.
Who this workshop is for
Anyone drawn to uncanny images. Writers and artists interested in what it feels like to watch and be watched and what that double condition reveals about the self. People who have felt watched by something they cannot name and want to follow that feeling somewhere.
You will not be comfortable. You may be watched.
What the workshop covers
The workshop moves through three registers of the watching eye — mythological and religious, artistic and cinematic, and personal. We open with the most ancient versions of the image and work toward the most intimate.
We look at the eye across traditions — the evil eye, the all-seeing eye, the angel covered in eyes — asking why this image appears everywhere and what it is trying to hold. We move into art and cinema — Redon, Magritte, the eye in Jacob's Ladder — following what the uncanny eye knows that the ordinary eye does not. And we close with the question the image keeps asking: what does it feel like to watch? What does it feel like to be watched? And what happens when you cannot tell which one you are doing?
There is an optional creative prompt toward the end. No sharing required.
The Details
Online via Zoom · Thursday 3rd December 2026 · 7pm-9pm UK Time
Open to anyone with a serious interest
Places limited to fifteen
Price: £35
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