Other Days, Other Eyes (2019) refers to the evolution of the ubiquitous recording infrastructures that surround us and reflects on the generation and transmission of that information, as well as society’s growing abundance of quotidian and banal information.

Kitchen combines live footage from cameras with varying curiosities of the everyday, archived elements, and analog glass blobs laden with the weight of collected digital content. Smaller blobs seep out of the walls, evoking budding newcomers that may very well grow up to become a camera one day, speculating on the evolution of live architectural organisms.

The work captures the coexistence of the physical and the virtual, the natural and artificial, the real and imagined, and the absurd.

This project grew out of IMAGEOBJECTLANDSCAPEEVENT, a research project by longtime collaborative team Kitchen-Hooker. Much of Kitchen’s work is inspired by the writings of J.G. Ballard — in this instance, a short story called “Sound-Sweep” wherein a passage reads, “the sonic strata of everyday urban life… is so without respite that it is literally embedded within walls and surfaces.” In Ballard’s book, a sound-sweep is the equivalent of a trash man, collecting the abundance of everyday sounds absorbed into the architecture.

The project title is borrowed from another 1970s science fiction writer, Bob Shaw

Exhibited: Dilalica, Barcelona, Spain Oct 11 2019 to Jan 15, 2020.

Glass fabrication: Evan Voelbel.

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