In the painting “A Pair of Eyes”, we observe the intense stare of a bearded man and the watchful eye of an avian creature that forms the man's surrealistic helmet. While the man focuses his rapt attention on something quite distant, the bird directs his attention toward us, his vigilant stare rather daunting. Is he a sentinel for his master, whose visions are far in the distance? Dynamic, curving plumage and a background filled with linear movement adds a textual quality to the painting that flows with a rhythm of the ages. To behold a pair of eyes is to experience the vision of both man and beast, and to see beyond the common.