The next big project? First, the twins agree, they’ll try their hand at color, beginning with the most simple of forms, an ocean horizon. Ryan confesses he’d like to lug the easel to an enticing viewpoint on Catalina Island, off the coast of Los Angeles, where a set of telephone poles plunges sharply down a ravine, and Trevor mentions the theoretical appeal of expanding their easel to accommodate 360-degree panoramas. The idea provocatively presses the relationship between drawing and sight, for such panoramic drawings would not only mimic the shape of the human eye, but uncannily postulate an eye that can see in all directions at once — a skill the brothers are no doubt working on.

Make No Little Plans (2008), an etched stainless steel version of Ryan and Trevor Oakes’s drawing of Millennium Park, is on display in the park through June 1. "Double Vision" originally appeared in the May 2009 issue of Modern Painters. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Modern Painters' May 2009 Table of Contents.