Protection from the evil eye
Description:
Without knowing what I was drawing I came to be drawing many protections from the evil eye. A strange concept for me. However a very widespread philosophy.
Some more context from: https://www.curationist.org/editorial-features/article/protection-from-the-evil-eye
The evil eye translates powerful emotions such as envy into harmful magic through the medium of vision. There are many different beliefs about curses involving the gaze worldwide, with various names for the harmful gaze including nazar, malocchio, mal de ojo, mati, and more.
Many symbols that are believed to confer evil eye protection most likely have origins in the ancient Mediterranean, Central Asia, and South Asia. Written mentions of the evil eye date to as early as the third millennium BCE in Mesopotamia.1 Prominent among protective symbols is the dot-in-circle eye motif, as well as symbols like the open hand (khamsa), the bird, and the closed fist (mano fica).
Exhibition:
Silent Knowledge - Alliance Française de Pretoria - 2026