A conscious practice of observation challenges the typical experience of a landscape as perceived by the eye.

While an image of the eye symbolizes the organ from an external perspective, referring to the internal experience of sight requires a distancing effect.

The contradiction of light revealing, and seeing occuring in the dark. 

In many languages, there is a letter called eye. For an abstract letter to bear a name referring to something in the world would reverse the fundamental semantic order, unless that name exists beyond time.

In ancient languages, words often carry meaning beyond what they directly refer to. In Pahlavi, the word for time “Daman,” is the plural form of “Dam,” meaning breath.