BYSARA KILEY WATSON (^) /PHOTOGRAPHS BYTHE VOORHES
126 SPRING 2020 / POPSCI.COM
BEHIND THE COVER
- What came first: the chicken or the egg? When it comes to making our cover, at least, the egg
wins. Specifically, 15 wooden nesting dolls ranging in size from a tiny thimble to a Starbucks
venti latte. Robin Finlay, the prop-styling half of photography duo The Voorhes, sanded and
painted the pieces again and again until they’d appear as smooth as the real deal in front of the
camera. Then, using a special laser, she emblazoned a lucky four (two big and two medium)
with foul and eggs. Because the tool was designed for perfectly round cylinders and surfaces,
she had to secure the eggs in a home-brewed vise fashioned from two sections of PVC pipe. To
create the final image containing dozens of the oblongs, photographer Adam Voorhes stitched
together 21 frames and digitally overlaid the designs onto all the other un-lasered eggs—even
the wee ones —stretching into infinity in an endless march of chicken-versus-egg.
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