{"id":574659,"date":"2026-05-09T11:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T11:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/574659\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T11:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T11:59:08","slug":"whats-behind-the-new-graffiti-craze-with-eyes-in-glasgow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/574659\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s behind the new graffiti craze with eyes in Glasgow?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As for why it’s eyes that pop up, there is both a fun reason and a more serious point to the work.<\/p>\n

The lighter aspect is straightforward, as the artist likes “the idea that people can spot them and think of it like a wee game, where you see another one, and another. <\/p>\n

“It’s like a trail for kids, like when you had the lions all around Paisley years ago.”<\/p>\n

That is a reference to the Pride of Paisley trail in 2016<\/a>, where 25 large colourful lion sculptures, and a further 40 small ones, were dotted all around the area.<\/p>\n

More complicated reasons are behind the art itself.<\/p>\n

“We walk around cities and towns but most of our interaction these days is done online, and it’s so visible what you do and say (on the internet),” the artist said. <\/p>\n

“Companies see everything you do and can profit from it, so there is that undercurrent to the eyes as well. <\/p>\n

“Having all those wee eyes everywhere is like ‘I see you, do you see you’? We’re all here and living our lives in public…<\/p>\n

“People can whip out their phones and just capture anything that happens and put it on a digital space. There is a permanency to that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As for why it’s eyes that pop up, there is both a fun reason and a more serious…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-574659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}