The London Eye — Full Circle

Description

When the London Eye first turned on New Year’s Eve 1999, it was meant to be temporary — a millennium celebration, nothing more. Twenty-seven years later, it has become as essential to the skyline as Big Ben itself. A modern icon on an ancient river.

This piece captures the Eye in quiet isolation — the full wheel, its capsules catching imagined light, the waterfront stretching beneath. There’s a stillness to this engraving that the real Eye never has. Frozen mid-turn on dark Thames slate, it becomes something meditative — a wheel that measures not minutes, but centuries.

The slate beneath it predates the Eye by hundreds of years. Stone that was already ancient when the South Bank was marshland, now bearing the image of the structure that redefined it. That tension — between the very old and the very new — is what Memoza is all about.