Lab time

All Eyes as Big as Plates images are shot on medium format film with a dear old Mamiya camera and every time we go to the photolab to pick up the negatives, our hearts beat just a little bit faster. Our first encounter with Bob after our shoot in Queens happened in a photo lab in Manhattan, peeking through a magnifier at this magical light-sensitive emulsion on a plastic base. Lab time

Final Gigapan moment

Just before our hot hut got dismantled, the photographs came down from the wall, Bob’s pine needles, Marty’s phragmites and Woody’s wood got packed up and Eyes as Big as Plates left the building, the Gigapan promptly documented our home for the last two and a half months. Welcome to the next residents! Final Gigapan moment

Desi Gonzales – Telling Stories from Stories, written in conjunction with Eyes as Big as Plates

Lovely meeting with Desi at the studio in March © Anton Bredeveien
Lovely meeting with Desi at the studio in March © Anton Bredeveien

In conjunction with Session, Recess commissions emerging writers to pursue the underlying theory and contemporary criticism that informs individual Session projects. We had the great pleasure of teaming up with Desi Gonzales, who has written a piece in conjunction with Eyes as Big as Plates.  Telling Stories from Stories can be read in full here. Thank you Desi for a fruitful exchange of ideas and to Recess for the great initiative. Desi Gonzales – Telling Stories from Stories, written in conjunction with Eyes as Big as Plates

Closing reception night

After two and a half months in residence with Recess Session, Eyes as Big as Plates’ marked the end of the Redhook stay with a wonderful closing reception at Pioneer Works. Thank you to everyone who came and joined us, and to the team of Recess, Pioneer Works and our magnificent models and helpers along the way – we are forever grateful! Closing reception night

Tonight!

Looking forward to seeing you tonight in Redhook for our one-night-only, special early viewing of new works from the series!  The one and only Bob and Woody will even be there in person and the works won’t be going online anytime soon, so do come down to Pioneer Works and  join us for the conclusion of an incredible residency with Recess in Redhook. Welcome! Tonight!

Eyes as Big as Plates’ video proposal for EXPO 1: NEW YORK Rockaway Call for Ideas

MoMA PS1 and MoMA’s Department of Architecture and Design recently put out a call for artists, architects, and designers to submit their ideas for the rehabilitation of the Rockaways post-Hurricane Sandy. Applicants were invited to present new ideas on alternative housing models, new social spaces and uses of public space, protecting the shoreline, and engaging local communities. Eyes as Big as Plates’ video proposal for EXPO 1: NEW YORK Rockaway Call for Ideas