It seems that this will be the cover image for In the Image: Virtual Religion and Philosophical Talmud

Marcel Duchamp, To Be Looked at (from the Other Side of the Glass) with One Eye, Close to, for Almost an Hour (1918) is an emblem of religious or spiritual looking.

Duchamp’s glass demands time and close attention, distorting realist perception in the creation of spectral effects.

A quick word by way of interpretation:

“The title of this work, which Duchamp said he “intended to sound like an oculist’s prescription,” tells the viewer exactly how to look at it.”

“But peering through the convex lens embedded in the work’s glass “for almost an hour” would have a hallucinatory effect, the view being dwarfed, flipped, and otherwise distorted. Meanwhile, the viewer patiently following the title’s instruction is him- or herself put on display for anyone else walking by. Duchamp called To Be Looked At . . . his “small glass,” to distinguish it from his famous Large Glass of 1915–23. He made the work in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he had fled earlier in 1918 to escape the oppressive atmosphere of the United States during World War I. When he shipped it back to New York, the glass cracked in transit, producing an effect that delighted him.”