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Cobalt Watcher - Abstract Blue Eye of Swirling Color

A close-up, eye-like shape fills the frame, with a vivid cobalt-blue center ringed by dark navy. Around it are swirling bands of white, orange, amber, brown and yellow with scalloped, lash-like edges. A small dark teardrop shape sits just below the middle of the blue like a pupil. The surface looks like glossy marbled liquid, with fine ripples and curls spiraling toward the center.

A stranger wants this piece because the swirling color turns into a giant, glowing blue eye the moment they look at it. The cobalt iris, the small dark drop-shaped pupil and the flame-edged lash-like bands give it a focal point and a watchful presence that most blue-and-orange fluid abstracts lack. The saturated blue against rust, amber and cream is striking even if you never think of an eye. The eye is what makes it memorable.

Artwork by Omaste Witkowski