QUAYS Every single frame is created with a lot of consideration, because you’ve also spent the time building all the décor, building the puppets, doing the lighting. But as a fan since my late teens, I had long ago given up trying to decode their fantastic visions. As I talked to them, no topic was off limits except one: what it all means. Their films suggest they see the world in a unique way, but their only obvious eccentricities are their obsessive work habits (4 a.m. In person they are charming and self-effacing. Their films make good on the promise that junk shops and attics offer childhood eyes: Entire worlds can exist within the tiniest spaces.
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It is the magician’s workshop I had always hoped it would be, full of the found objects and cultural and literary artifacts that fuel their work. As cluttered, layered and rich as their most exotic dreamscapes, the space has been host to the Quays’ quiet and meticulous handcrafting of imagery for decades. Stepping into the Quay brothers’ South London studio is as transporting an experience as any fan of their animation could hope for. For more than 30 years, identical twins Stephen and Timothy Quay have gradually coaxed life from a baffling combination of everyday objects and handcrafted puppets and sets.