THE UNSEEN EYE
SEES EVERYTHING. SAYS NOTHING.
Have you ever walked into a room and immediately known something happened before you got there?
Nobody tells you anything. Nothing looks particularly different. Maybe two people are sitting quietly. Maybe somebody looks away a little too quickly. You can’t prove a thing, but something inside you says, I’m missing part of this story.
That’s where The Unseen Eye begins for me.
At first you see the eye and naturally think about watching. Today that can mean surveillance cameras, phones, doorbells, computers, satellites and thousands of lenses quietly recording pieces of everyday life. We probably pass more cameras in a week than people from another generation encountered in a lifetime.
But look closer at the symbol.
There’s more than an eye hiding inside it.
There’s a book.
Think about what a book really is. You can open something written a hundred or even a thousand years ago and suddenly somebody who has been dead for centuries is speaking to you. Their eyes are gone, but what they saw survived. How many secrets about people, civilizations and history are sitting quietly on shelves waiting for somebody to open the cover?
Then there’s the chess piece.
Chess is another kind of seeing. The strongest move isn’t always the one directly in front of you. Sometimes you have to see what could happen three or four moves from now. Life can be like that too. Somebody says something innocent, makes one small move, and you wonder whether you’re seeing the move or the beginning of the plan.
Then we come to the brain.
This might be the strangest unseen eye of all.
Close your eyes right now and picture somebody you haven’t seen in twenty years. Where did that picture come from? There’s no photograph in front of you. No screen. No camera. Yet somehow your mind can rebuild a face, a room, a voice or a moment you thought had disappeared.
And memory has its own mystery. Why can we forget what we did last Tuesday but remember something somebody said to us forty years ago?
Then there’s the lock.
A lock tells you something exists behind it that isn’t meant for everybody.
Maybe it protects money. Maybe information. Maybe a diary. Maybe a photograph. Maybe nothing more than an old box whose value makes sense to only one person.
People have locks too.
We call them privacy, trust, silence and secrets.
That brings us back to the eye.
An eye can watch you walk into a building. A camera can record where you went. A computer may remember what you searched. Another person can study your face and believe they know exactly what you’re thinking.
But do they?
Seeing and knowing have never been the same thing.
Maybe that’s the real mystery of The Unseen Eye. We have created a world capable of watching almost everything around us, while some of the most important things about being human remain completely invisible.
A thought.
A memory.
A fear.
A plan.
A secret.
A lie.
The truth.
MOITA has already walked into some of these rooms through WATCHING MY BACK, EYES, FOUR AND I, BE AFRAID, and other stories scattered throughout the catalogue. They don’t all look through the same doorway, and I’m not going to explain the connections here.
That would spoil the fun.
The Unseen Eye has one more question for you anyway.
When nobody can see what’s happening inside your mind, who really knows what’s behind the lock?
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