| The somewhat lukewarm nuances and peculiar qualities in life are what we enjoy most. While beauty definitely plays an important role in the rag trade, and while our pictures play into this, there is also a certain vulnerability to each of them. Appealing to the senses, we embark on the idea of misplacement and discomfort. Our work consists of many different components: our delicate subjects (from whom we milk all possible eccentric and quaint qualities), a ring of black masking tape, a few good laughs and, at times, a meat market man’s factory. These are all essential components to the visual tensions upon which we thrive. |  |
Pushing the Envelope – Louis & Aida
The somewhat lukewarm nuances and peculiar qualities in life are what we enjoy most. While beauty definitely plays an important role in the rag trade, and while our pictures play into this, there is also a certain vulnerability to each of them.
Appealing to the senses, we embark on the idea of misplacement and discomfort. Our work consists of many different components: our delicate subjects (from whom we milk all possible eccentric and quaint qualities), a ring of black masking tape, a few good laughs and, at times, a meat market man’s factory. These are all essential components to the visual tensions upon which we thrive.
On their own, the materials we use in our pictures conjure a subtle contention between beauty and horror, an oxymoron full of extreme luxury and commonplace objects of no significant value. It is within this chaotic equation that the viewer is forced to broach the question of value, and to acknowledge the fragile beauty of an anachronism that exists only for the moment. Ours is almost like a disposable culture.
The relationship we have with our work is strange, akin to falling in love for the first time, except that you stay afloat and never land, and this lends a very visceral quality to our works. In terms of our own relationship as co-creators, there will always be constant struggles. There will be love and there will also be hate. We have flaws, but we learn to look beyond that. Instead of harping on our weaknesses and correcting our mistakes, we believe in spending time on improving our vision and strength—to work on the potential that exists, and against trying to change accidents. That keeps us going.
All in all, we are always pushing the envelope on what is possible, and overindulging ourselves in the lemon nut cakes that are baking around us.
