HOLIDAY
GIFT GUIDE
HUFFINGTON
11.18.12
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Q&A
obvious routes like Craigslist and
Facebook, Twitter. We would take
cardboard, and we’d find stuff in
alleyways, thrift stores.
Do you have a term for your art? We
started by calling it window display, because we use windows as
our venue, but we’re merging into
other venues; we’re doing interiors, too, like private offices. The
evolution we’ve had recently is
“environmental design.”
Have you ever done anything or thought
about doing anything tied to the holidays? We’ve done displays that
have been up during the holidays,
but we don’t stay within that traditional holiday theme. Usually
we try to invoke a wintery feeling.
We’ve done “glacier” windows
before. And the windows we have
currently [at our studio] have a
snowy feel to them.
When you imagine hurried holiday shoppers running around, popping into this
place or that place, what would you
want them to know about the work
you’ve put into, or that anyone has put
into, a display this intricate? I feel like
a lot of what we try to do is get
people to just slow down and actually think about it. Even when
you’re just shopping for clothing,
or whatever you’re shopping for
at the holidays, sometimes you’re
just buying to buy something for
somebody, and maybe if you stop
and think about it for a second,
you might make different decisions. So thinking about where
things come from, or the work
that went into it—it’s the same
with window display as it is with
anything else. It could be inspiring somebody to create, or inspiring them to change the way they
think about things.
When you think about how consumers
will tie your art into their holiday season,
what do you want them to take away
from it after they’ve left the store, after
all the presents are unwrapped? We
pay a lot of attention to where our
materials go, not just where we
get them. We make sure they’re
recycled or repurposed. We try
really hard not to throw anything
away. That’s an important part
of Christmas, too. Not throwing
away all that paper, reusing paper
and repackaging it. Can you imagine every household in the United
States? All that waste? It’s crazy.
As a community, I feel like
that can all be rethought.