The French artist known only as “JR” is semi-famous for a self-portrait. The full title of the work is “Self-Portrait in a Woman’s Eye, Kenya, from 28 Milimetres, Women are Heroes , 2010”. The portrait at first appears to be a close up of someone’s eye, but as you look closer, you find the reflection of the artist holding a camera reflected in the eye. The artist is the person in the reflection, not the eye. 
The piece of art invites the viewer to notice the eye first, but then gives the viewer a reward for looking deeper – in looking deeper you get a rare glimpse of the reclusive artist at work, something that not just anyone gets to see, especially since JR is up for arrest in many countries for works of art that call governments to account.
I am reminded in this of the concept of the “image of God.” Most of what people say when they utilize the phrase “image of God” annoys me. Being “in the image of God” doesn’t mean that we’re innocent like God, it doesn’t mean that we’re somehow physically or even mentally like God, in fact, it doesn’t really mean that we are “like God” at all. What it means instead is that we are the image through which others see God. We are the eyeball, He is the artist.
This is the case with every human being at some level. In humanity we see the artistry of God. Just like the self-portrait of JR, it is only when we look closely that we begin to see the artist who is behind it all. Over and above that, as Christians, we are also called to point to the artist when we are noticed. When we are applauded, when we are praised, when we are regarded – it is then that we can say, “but do you see Him in my eye?” We can point to the amazing things that God is doing in our lives that make us notice-worthy, because He noticed us first and put His image in our eye.