Conceptual artist Laurie Simmons discusses her interest in doll eyes and cosplay in her new Salon 94 show.

To make sure this would not happen with his portraits, he endowed his enigmatic paintings of doll-like figures with eyes that are anything but normal. Eccentric Loner. Some have eyes that are crossed.

Evil beneath: The Osama bin Laden 'devil eyes' doll. The original paint was designed to dissolve and revealed an evil face. Adam Goldman/The Washington Post Beginning in about 2005, the CIA began ...