Oculus was created by Kristin Jones, Andrew Ginzel, Rinaldo Piras and is located at Chambers Street-World Trade Center, Park Place. It was installed 1998.
Oculus is Latin and means an eye. - http://dictionary.reference.com/ The single eye refers to the
Eye of Horus, the all seeing eye, a representation of Lucifer.
Oculus consists of 301 different mosaic eyes on separate panels, all based upon actual human eyes of three hundred individual New Yorkers from real photographs.
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The centerpiece of the work is an elliptical glass and stone mosaic floor, with a magnificent micro mosaic eye at the center of an ultramarine vortex with the image of the City of New York woven into the picture.