Watch KAWS Install Two Giant Sculptures

When Brooklyn-based artist KAWS’s 18-foot-high ALONG THE WAY sculpture arrived at the Brooklyn Museum, its cartoonish wooden pair dismantled for transportation, filmmaker Danilo Lauria unfolded his tripod, adjusted his iPhone 6 accordingly, and started snapping. Lauria, who acts as Video Creative Director for Fusion, then arranged these images into this incredible Instagram video—a manual, frame-by-frame stop-motion, recording the piece-by-piece, three-day-long installation of KAWS’s toy-like giants. Once he was involved in the project, Lauria visited KAWS studio and “had a brief talk,” he tells The Creators Project. “I wanted to see the sculpture so he showed me a little and fragile version of it. I played with the figure a little [and] that was enough [for me to become attached] to the animation.” Lauria’s second video, the offshoot of this meet-cute, timelapses the transition of the sculpture from KAWS’s studio to the museum in “a little story about the concept of friendship.”

KAWS’s sculpture lends its name to the show itself, KAWS: “ALONG THE WAY”, which is on exhibition with the ALONG THE WAY sculpture and several other works until December 6.

Find more from Danilo Lauria on Instagram and see additional works from KAWS’s Brooklyn Museum show, here. Related: 

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