Inanna, Sumerian goddess, her story tells that she makes a journey into the afterlife and then finally returns to the surface, reborn, reaching balance and completeness.
By placing attention on the eyes, as the color suggests and highlights, they are closed, representing what you don’t want to see, but also what you don’t want to show.
Another point of view suggests that closed eyes also represent a meditative state, of introspection, but which is also connected to the journey into the abyss made by Inanna.