EYES CASH
A visual essay on attention as currency. Bauhaus, after midnight.
THE GAZE
Every second you spend here costs nothing — and is worth everything. Your attention is the only material that does not deplete the supplier and yet compounds value at the receiver.
The Bauhaus believed form must serve function. We believe the function of the screen is to earn the gaze — and the form of the gaze is geometric, primary, electric. A circle is not decoration. It is a request.
— observed at 02:14, somewhere on a Tokyo subway, watching the LED of a vending machine flicker.
YOUR EYES ARE SPENDING CASH
— right now, with no receipt, no signature, no reversal. The transaction has already cleared.
THE NETWORK
Each circle is an eye. Each eye is a meter. Each meter is reading you. Hover to make one bright; the rest will dim, politely.
W A T C H
— the page does not end. It only fades into the next thing demanding your eyes.