Eyes Of Compromise, But Beautiful, They Surprise

Eyes. Don't we love them? From day one. Such a small part of us they are, and yet we are completely tuned-in to their every little expressive gesture.

Eyes are not technically perfect, as they are often held up to be. The light-sensitive cells are inverted inside of our eye, meaning that the light entering has to travel through a layer of blood vessels before being registered. The effect is like throwing a piece of tissue paper over your camera lens. And the main nerve bundle plunges right through the center of this surface, giving us a nice blind spot that our brains have to fool us out of. There is also no anchor between the retina and rear of the eye, making detachment a pretty common and pretty bad failure mode. But still...

I guess It's not what our eyes aren't that makes them so great but what they are. Little round shiny books that spell out our thoughts and dreams to anyone willing to look into them.