Eating With The Eyes

(Hardback)

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Eating With The Eyes is a visual mediation and a photographic recording of accidental events spanning over a decade and collected from Harry Pearce's journeys around the world. Harry Pearce is a Pentagram partner, eternal optimist, human rights activist, dream diary keeper, graphic designer, accidentalist and photographer. Harry's photographs are the culmination of a lifetime of practice that began during his childhood in the West Country, when his father gifted him with a Pentax camera. From this point onwards, Harry began meticulously documenting quirks, human interventions and coincidences. From these images he began to piece together a sometimes tragic, sometimes funny and always poignant continuity and rhythm in the world that surrounds us. Pearce says, "I get lost in the process of recording seemingly accidental events. As time has passed, I've come to realise that there are no true accidents, only ideas trying to find us. We are surrounded by a constant stream of ideas, insights and visions. Every moment in every place. Abstract and accidental as they may seem, they are to my eyes precise, illuminating and elevating." The book - which features an introduction from Charles Saumarez Smith, the CEO of the Royal Academy of Art, is an insight into Pearce's mind and shows a fundamental part of his process as a graphic designer. Over the past three decades Pearce has worked with some of the worlds best-known brands and artists, to devise identities, installations, posters, packaging, and books. These include: the Royal Academy of Arts, John Lewis, Phaidon Press, Saks Fifth Avenue, Lloyds of London, Ai Weiwei, Anish Kapoor and the UN. This edition comes in two colour combinations (brown and grey) that will be shipped to customers at random.

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'Harry Pearces accidental street art captures serendipitous moments, rich with poignancy and mystery, on film' - The Guardian
'We might use visual discoveries like these as prompts, but this would be to skip over their revelatory power as instances of what the Surrealists called le merveilleux' - Rick Poyner, Eye Magazine
'Like a magician pulling rabbits out of empty hats, Harrys art is to pull something out of nothing' - Peter Gabriel
'The results are mesmerising, Pearce manages to create accidental art from surprising forms like dirt, splashed paint and eroded forms. Sometimes dark and mysterious, Pearce gives these abandoned objects extraordinary attention and a story of their own' - Wallpaper*
'Sidewalks, dirty walls, crumpled textilesthis is the banal stuff that surrounds us, all the time, but Pearce has an eye for finding abstract beauty in it' - Wired Magazine
'Here is someone who looks at the world of decay with intensity, the overlooked pattern, the colour of paint, the arbitrary lettering, the old typography of foreign newspapers, everything which is the opposite to controlled design' - Sir Charles Saumarez Smith, Royal Academy of Arts
'Harry Pearce makes us a gift of beauty out of seemingly nothing' - Paula Scher
'[Eating With The Eyes] contains a very slow beauty, a beauty that took a long while to ripen, one that comes to this world gently. Harry Pearces hungry eyes present a satisfying, languorous meal.' - Stefan Sagmeister
'Harrys shown us, that when you let go of what you think you see, and look hungrily beyond it, you too will see what he calls the innate wonder and way of all things' - Michael Wolff