“My Mind’s Eye” is one of the most descriptive phrases I have ever come across. To me, it is more than just a visual element—it’s packed with symbolism. Typically, the eye represents perception, consciousness, and awareness. In this context, it can also be seen as a metaphor for seeing deeper than just the surface. But, in other contexts, it is our inner eye that sees, thinks, imagines, dreams, feels, and senses things about your inner and the outer world.

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To me, I see my Mind’s Eye as my creative soul.

It drives our childlike compassion to see things differently than the rest of the world.

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Getting to the physical side of mental imagery, I found it fascinating the about 1% of people have no ability to form visual images in their minds, while almost 3% can vividly see images. Most of us are stuck somewhere in between.

I was a weird kid in unimaginable ways. So my first real thoughts about “My Mind’s Eye” came from Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

Anyway, the picture above is what my mind’s eye saw as what my cluttered mind looks like on a typical day. The glass sculpture was in the lobby of the Milwaukee Art Museum in 2007. It is about 12 ft tall and probably 5 ft wide. When I walked in the door, I saw nothing else for in unimaginable period of time.