Jim Phillips x Mighty Jaxx's Running Eye Revealed! & Previews of customs for #RunningEye Show in myplasticheart (Opens June 5)
Mighty Jaxx reveals in full their production RUNNING EYE, set to launch with the the Running Eye group custom show opening June 5th at myplasticheart in New York City, and as well some words from artist Jim Phillips himself, sprinkled with custom previews of artwork for the show by various artists.
"Legendary skate/surf artist JIM PHILLIPS collaborates with street wear brand Subcrew, artist Jahan Loh and art figure makers Mighty Jaxx to present his latest sculpture work, THE RUNNING EYE. Produced under the direct supervision of Jim himself over a period of 12 months, this limited edition art collectible will be released in New York City on 5th June 2015."Online Release for Running Eye will be via mightyjaxx.com) on 6 June 2015 @ New York (11AM) / London (4PM) / Singapore (11PM).
UPDATED: Running Eye is sized 8" and is in a limited edition of 200pcs, each priced at US$80 (*Product ships in July 2015).
(Top left: @godmachine
Top right: @jimbophillips
Bottom left: @buffmonster
Bottom mid: @mrewokone
Bottom right: @steviecab)
"Running Eye is one of my most favorite characters that I’ve created. I like displaying it in my studio, I think it represents art and belongs in every art studio. Now Mighty Jaxx is making it possible with this edition of the Running Eye vinyl toy.
When I first became obsessed by the symbolism of the human eye, it was after the shock I experienced while seeing An Andalusian Dog, a 1929 surrealist silent movie by director Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali. The opening scene begins with a close-up of the apparent slitting of a woman's eye by a man with a straight razor as the full moon is slit by a narrow passing cloud."
Top: David Flores
Bottom Left: Les Schettkoe
Bottom Right: Greg Rivera of Мишка
"It was not so much the horror of the deft incision but the overriding violence of symbolism and the relative connection to art, artists and the viewing public, and how all who were in attendance in the tiny art films theatre channeling those images through their corneas, retinas and optic nerves wired directly to their brains vicariously experienced the razor's slash in the most personal way. The nearest analogy is looking into the barber's mirrors mounted in front and back repeating your reflection into infinity just as the aftershock memory of slitting flashes back to continually repeat the vicious assault."
(Custom by @gregmishka)
"The eye is not only the window of your soul, but it is the window of your world and especially the window of perception for artists of visual expression. For them, like the eagle, the eye is everything, seeing, observing, looking, scanning, surveying, glancing, gazing, peeking, staring, and knowing.
The subsequent artistic application of mentally processed images are systematic but they are bound for other eyes to view as if to complete some vicious circle. But now with Running Eye, when the eye itself is the subject, and the object of such seeing and being seen, the eye IS the art and the art IS the eye, made by the eye for the eye, well, that's where Running comes in. And that's why he is running, to keep up with it all." (JIM PHILLIPS)
