Mieke Werners

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.

Louise Bourgeois (at Tate Modern Switch House)

Red Sorghum ‘红高粱’ (1987) Zhang Yimou

The living are only a species of the dead, Finbarr Fallon

People watching a solar eclipse squint through smoked glass or film on Rebun Island in Japan, March 1949. Photograph by Maynard Owen Williams, National Geographic

Internet Archive

Tuscany - Italy (by Harshil Shah) 

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Singapore, 1965. Street scene, Burt Glinn.

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