I’m so small, I can barely be seen
How can this great love be inside of me?
Look at your eyes; they’re small in size
But they see enormous things

Rumi’s poetic adage would ruminate for centuries ahead of Alan Watts conceding that “trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.” At the core of consciousness is a reflexive loop- an inward-turning mirror that allows for the architecture of “I.” The logical world reveres this turn as the Eden of the mind, while others decry it as delusion or further, question the existence of any mirror at all. If you hold your own eye contact in the mirror and unfocus your eyes, you may permit yourself the sensation of encountering a stranger. Is knowing yourself even possible? Is the strange loop at our center a gateway or simply a trick of the light?

Look at Your Eyes is the solo exhibition of 2024 A&E Atlanta Artist-in-Residence Jordan Young framing reflexive and recursive loops that question self through experiments in perception. Void has been making eyes at you the whole time. Do you dare gaze back?