Riitta Ikonen and Karoline Hjorth II

Above and below Bob. New York

This project by the Finnish-Norwegian artist duo Riitta Ikonen and Karoline Hjorth.started in 2011 as a play on Nordic folklore and is evolving into a major study of humans in their environment a search for modern human beings in nature. They have a book of the project being released this year.

Above: Nials, The Faroe Islands. Below Pupi, Finland

Below: Salmi, Finland

Daisy Zuo

These illustrations by Daisy Zuo are inspired by the portraits of people wearing vegetation 'Eyes as big as plates by Riitta Ikonen and Karoline Hjorth. I loved and was greatly inspired by these portraits and it is great to see them being taken into different media by Daisy.