Playing With Googly Eyes (8 Photos)

Eight tiny interventions that make the street look back.

A cookie turns a bin into Cookie Monster, a crack turns concrete into Pac-Man, and a giant evergreen watches back. Most of the smallest transformations come from Bulgarian artist Vanyu Krastev, while a lakeside stump and a bronze deer family prove that almost anything can grow a face.

More: See 17 Times Vanyu Krastev Gave the City Eyes

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🍪 Cookie Monster Bin — By an Unknown Creator in an Unknown Location 🌍

Two oversized googly eyes and one cookie turn the bin’s opening into Cookie Monster’s mouth. The existing shape does almost all the work.

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👀 Concrete Pac-Man — By Vanyu Krastev in Bulgaria 🇧🇬

One crack becomes a mouth, and one round bollard becomes a hungry street character. Krastev’s Eyebombing Bulgaria project uses the damage already in the object instead of hiding it.

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😟 Panic on a Rusty Pole — By Vanyu Krastev in Bulgaria 🇧🇬

A rusted pole already had the right scar and curve for a worried face. Krastev adds two uneven eyes and a small black mouth, and the whole post suddenly looks as if it has seen something coming.

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🌿 Mossy Face — By Vanyu Krastev in Bulgaria 🇧🇬

A moss-covered formation already had a brow, nose and hunched posture. Two plastic eyes complete the creature without covering the textures that made it visible in the first place.

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🙂 The Happiest Boarded-Up Window — By Vanyu Krastev in Bulgaria 🇧🇬

Two tiny eyes and a curved smile make a sealed, weathered window look delighted rather than forgotten. The intervention is small enough that the architecture remains the main character.

💡 Artist Advice: Krastev’s own rule is simple: “don’t stick eyes wherever there are ones already.” The object needs to offer the face first. Read more from Vanyu Krastev.

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🌊 Lakeside Tree-Stump Creature — By an Unknown Creator in an Unknown Location 🌍

A weathered stump beside the water gets two oversized eyes. Its twisted roots become limbs, making the creature look as if it has crawled out of the lake.

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🌲 Giant Tree Monster — By an Unknown Creator in an Unknown Location 🌍

Two oversized inflatable eyes turn the upper branches of an evergreen into a towering creature. The scale changes everything: this time the whole tree becomes the face.

More: See 8 More Times Trees Became Art

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🦌 “Big Ears” — Eyes by Jeff Keith on Joe Halko’s Sculpture in Bend, Oregon, USA 🇺🇸

Jeff Keith later said he used duct tape to give Joe Halko’s bronze deer family its startled expression. Art in Public Places identifies the sculpture as Big Ears, installed at Simpson Avenue and 14th Street in 2001.

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