The word ocular has appeared in four articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Oct. 6 in “Hidden Art: A Rhapsody for the Soul, in 10 City Corners” by Eric V. Copage:
Martin began making a series of pen and ink drawings of trees with eyes. “I thought they were very beautiful,” Muñoz said.
Eventually they assembled the glass eyes in their studio with silicone and bark, went into the field and experimented with putting them into trees on their property. Martin said he restricted himself to using natural cavities.
“Smaller holes that woodpeckers make or the circular hollows left from fallen branches suggest the ocular cavity. And seemed to need only a little help to become an eye,” he said.
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