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Georges Rousse - Sodoshima, 2018

Acrylic on paper

Eyes as Big as Plates is the ongoing collaborative project between the Finnish-Norwegian artist duo Riitta Ikonen and Karoline Hjorth. Starting out as a play on characters from Nordic folklore, Eyes as Big as Plates has evolved into a continual search for modern human’s belonging to nature. The series is produced in collaboration with retired farmers, fishermen, zoologists, plumbers, opera singers, housewives, artists, academics and ninety year old parachutists. Since 2011 the artist duo has portrayed seniors in Norway, Finland, France, US, UK, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Sweden, Japan and Greenland. Each image in the series presents a solitary figure in a landscape, dressed in elements from surroundings that indicate neither time nor place. Here nature acts as both content and context: characters literally inhabit the landscape wearing sculptures they create in collaboration with the artists.

Allegory of Sculpture, 1889

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Untitled, 2020 Ink and graphite find me on instagram

Nibbia Chapel, Six and one abroad, 1914

Sand Art (created by R. Thom House) Photography: John M. Xolego. Sand Paintings: Jeanne Ackerman, Ann Ceglia. Illustrations: Barbara Garbutt, Bruce A. Genther.

Friend with cat, 2019 Pencil and gouache

The Young Martyr (detail, 1856) Paul Delaroche

Susan Sontag, from “Death Kit,” published c. January 1967 (via violentwavesofemotion)