Peter Kuper's visual storytelling style is simple: Five starkly beautiful, almost woodcut-like black-and-white panels tell a brief but oddly powerful story, with the first four panels establishing a visual narrative and the fifth tying the scenes together. It's not fair to use the term "strips" to describe them; it's more accurate and honest to think of them as a sort of visual haiku. Kuper uses this framework to show the reader the lifetime of a box, the dreams of the homeless and imprisoned, and impending doom written on the faces of five clocks. This little book's only real flaw is a layout design showing the first four panels on the even pages, requiring a page turn to reach the fifth and last image—thereby lending the book an inappropriate punchline feel. That aside, the only quibble about Eye of the Beholder is its small size. Which is not to say that this is a quick read; it's a striking little gem that makes you read slower and slower to savor every image.