7 Eyes Have the Same Needs

This surreal, emotionally charged painting titled “7 Eyes Have the Same Needs” invites us into a dreamscape where the boundaries between body, nature, and consciousness dissolve into fluid symbolism.

At the center of the composition, a reclining, fragmented female figure drifts weightlessly, as though suspended in a psychological ether. Her form is sensual yet vulnerable — unclothed but adorned in red, the color of passion, danger, and primal life-force. Red tongue-like tendrils extend from her body, entwining with floating eyes that bloom like flowers across the canvas. These eyes, seven in number, are not passive observers — they are sentient, watching, desiring, weeping. They suggest the omnipresence of the gaze: societal, sexual, internal. They do not merely look; they yearn.

From her hand, she offers a lotus — a flower of birth, rebirth, and resilience. Above her chest, a sunflower grows, its face turned not toward the sun but toward a lizard — a creature of instinct, camouflage, survival. This intimate interaction between flower and reptile evokes a dialogue between transformation and primal need, between femininity and the raw animal core. The sunflower, often a symbol of light, becomes here an emotional epicenter, linking the body to the lizard, as if her desire is being consumed or interpreted through nature’s lens.

Petals — some sunflower, some lotus — fall gently around her, like tears or memory fragments, adding to the melancholic, suspended atmosphere. The background glows in warm amber and rose tones, as though everything is unfolding within the liminal light of a sunset, a space between awakening and forgetting.

The painting becomes a visual poem of female sexuality, vulnerability, and autonomy. The eyes — all-seeing yet all-needing — remind us that the act of watching is never neutral. The female form, often fetishized and fragmented in art, here takes control by simultaneously offering and withholding, existing in a realm where she is both subject and dream.

In this work, emotion bleeds into symbolism — desire is painted as petals, consciousness as reptiles, womanhood as a landscape of vision and surrender. The canvas becomes a site of entanglement between the sacred and the erotic, the seen and the felt, the watcher and the watched. Ultimately, “7 Eyes Have the Same Needs” is not merely a painting — it is a mirror to the shared hunger of being seen, understood, and desired, while also yearning for freedom from that very gaze.