And here we have the heart and soul of Surreal Orange. The Flying Eye. The first time I ever saw the flying eye was as decoration on a hit of acid. In case you didn’t know LSD is a liquid and so the simplest way to distribute it is on small pieces of blotter paper. (Look it up if you don’t know what that is.) And frequently they would print little designs on them. The Flying Eye I always thought was the perfect symbol for imagination and as decoration on a psychedelic compound it was perfectly apropos. Here he’s a little different. Really I shouldn’t even call him a him but its just easier and ‘It’ sounds insulting and is already taken as a name a couple times over. I’ll just use he.
Anyway- He’s the ultimate mystery. No one even knows WHAT he is. He doesn’t speak and comes and goes seemingly at random. Between you and me I think he’s actually a personification of the sense of sight- but definitely not limited to physical sight. Meaning is also I kind of sight. He’s like the concept of seeing brought to life somehow. But I’m probably wrong and he doesn’t speak so he won’t tell us. But he’s frequently helpful and seems attached to Floyd. Floyd thinks he’s awesome but doesn’t know anything about him either. Just a friend. Does he need to be more?

The personal connection of the Flying Eye for me also goes back to my work in Second Life where I created The Flying Eye Art Museum. Three times actually. I wanted to build an art museum and that was the name I chose. Its still going on but sadly I never have time to curate it. Need to take care of that.