I wanted to create a rather unique Christmas present for my mom this year, and thought I might share it here. I really love the words to the song “You’re Beautiful” by Phil Wickham and was mulling them over a little while before Christmas when this idea came to me: photograph an eye from each person in the family looking at the sky or the horizon. A closeup photograph of an eye can often reveal the subject where the eye is looking, so an eye with a visible image of the world might be a cool demonstration of the phrase in the song “…the colors of the morning are inside Your eyes…”. And, each eye would be from my mom’s children (by birth and marriage) so it would have a bit of a reflection on her heritage in the world via those eyes. My end result was a frame originally designed for baseball cards with a set of our eyes in it and a numbered “cheat sheet” to match eyes up to people in the family. Turned out, one of the cool things we did was to engage the kids and adults around the Christmas tree in a little game of Guess the Eye. That was a lot of fun and I think made the gift more special.
So, I present here a simple set of eyes for you to look at and perhaps be inspired to create something special for someone in your life.
