Eyes as Big as Plates, Portraits of Seniors Covered in Organic Materials
“Eyes as Big as Plates” is an ongoing collaborative project by Finnish artist Riitta Ikonen and Norwegian photographer Karoline Hjorth who photograph ‘charismatic seniors’ wearing costumes made of organic scavenged materials.
The photographs play with references from American folklore. Each image will present a solitary figure in a landscape, dressed in elements from surroundings that indicate neither time nor place, encouraging a sense of timelessness and universality. This blending of figure and ground recalls the way in which folk narratives animate the natural world through a personification of nature. The slippage of elderly figures into the landscapes suggests a return to the earth, a celebration of lives lived, reinforcing the link between humanity and the natural world.
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Rusty Blazenhoff
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