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Very occasionally I run into an image that, in the best analogy I can think of, burrows beneath my skin and won’t let go.<\/p>\n

Last week, while researching something completely unrelated online, I somehow happened upon this amazing photograph and was absolutely swept away. I feel something indefinably visceral and ancient each time I look at it. But beyond that, most simply put, it brings me joy.<\/p>\n

\"Eyes

Eyes as Big as Plates # Agnes II (Norway 2011)<\/strong> \u00a9 Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen<\/p><\/div>\n

This is just one piece within an expansive collaboration named “Eyes as Big as Plates”<\/a>\u00a0between Karoline Hjorth (NO) and Riitta Ikonen (FI). Considering my own current portrait project, the age of the subjects was no doubt the initial attraction. But the more I study the images, each subject’s integration within elements of nature somehow feels like a true and long-held secret finally revealed.<\/p>\n

I’ve lifted an excerpt from Hjorth’s statement directly from her website<\/a>, hoping that it will inspire you to visit one of the above links to see more of these amazing photographs.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe need to learn to see not just with Western eyes but with Islamic eyes and Inuit eyes, not just with human eyes but with golden-cheeked warbler eyes, coho salmon eyes, and polar bear eyes, and not even just with eyes at all but with the wild, barely articulate being of clouds and seas and rocks and trees and stars.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 ROY SCRANTON<\/p>\n

Eyes as Big as Plates is the ongoing collaborative project between Karoline Hjorth (NO) and Riitta Ikonen (FI). Starting out as a play\u00a0on characters from Nordic folklore, Eyes as Big as Plates has evolved into a\u00a0continual search for modern human\u2019s belonging to nature. The series is produced\u00a0in collaboration with retired farmers, fishermen, zoologists, plumbers, opera\u00a0singers, housewives, artists, academics and ninety year old parachutists. Since\u00a02011 the artist duo has portrayed seniors in Norway, Finland, France, US, UK,\u00a0Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Sweden, Japan, Greenland, Czech Republic and South Korea.\u00a0Each image in the series presents a\u00a0solitary figure in a landscape, dressed in elements from surroundings that indicate neither time nor place. Here nature acts as both content and context: characters\u00a0literally inhabit the landscape wearing sculptures they create in collaboration with\u00a0the artists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Meanwhile, I finally feel comfortable enough to leave my sketchbook and have moved into the next phase of my elder women portraits. I have still have a way to go with the stitching portion, but here’s where I am to date.<\/p>\n

\"WIP:

WIP: House on Fire<\/strong> \u00a92022 Elizabeth Fram, Watercolor and stitch on paper, 8-7\/8 x 11 inches<\/p><\/div>\n

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