Ice Cube Tray
Isaac Layman
Harborview Medical Center
An image of an ordinary object reveals extraordinary detail.
Picture a classic plastic ice cube tray in exquisite detail, at more than 10 times the size of the real-life object.
Ice Cube Tray, Isaac Layman’s monumental photographic print, hangs behind the reception desk in the lobby of Harborview’s Ninth & Jefferson Building. More than a straightforward image of a mundane object, Ice Cube Tray is the result of 26 photographs digitally collaged together to reveal more detail than the human eye can see—both "hyper-real and entirely fabricated,” Layman says. With its not-quite-frozen ice cubes, the image offers a cool meditation on time, water, and perspective.
Layman prefers not to think of a picture as a window into somewhere else, but as a destination unto itself. Rather than “imagining that you’re looking through a window at a vista,” he explains, “the object has entered the room.”Continue Reading ›
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