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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.

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Known as the Dodo Manège, this carousel in Paris, France features animals that are extinct or critically endangered. 

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Baya Mahieddine “Femmes et orangers fond blanc (Women and orange trees on a white background)” (1947) 

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oskar schlemmer - costume design for “triadic ballet” (1922)

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A crow on the ground. Knowledge of natural history. 1916.

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Fig. 21. Early lightbulb. The electric light in our homes. 1884. 

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Oskar Zwintscher, Bildnis mit gelben Narzissen, 1907

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Bunker - Canton de Vaud - Suisse

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iris van herpen hc fw18

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Abandoned mini market near Danube, Serbia [4032 x 3024]

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Otter underwater. Canadian Parade Readers: Work Book for Young Explorers. 1947.

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Photographer Ben Ward