In the classical Mediterranean world, the eye finds its shadow.
The Greeks name it — the baskania, the envious gaze that causes harm. Artisans paint large eyes on drinking vessels, stamp them onto thresholds, embed them in the prows of ships.
The eye is now both watcher and ward. It protects by watching back.
This is the first moment the eye becomes bidirectional — seeing and being seen, simultaneously present on both sides of every gaze.