It is an unusual work of art: Four screens simultaneously filled with images and sounds of Lawrence workers doing their jobs feeding the city.

The artists, both Kansas University teachers, focused their cameras on four workplaces: Wheatfields bakery, Free State Brewery, Sunflower Broadband and the Lawrence Journal-World.

The bakery and the brewery provide food. Sunflower and the Journal-World provide information.

The art exhibit’s title: “Feeding Lawrence/Work +Workplace.”

“I thought about how amazing it is about all of these businesses and work we encounter every day, but we never even think about how much it took for people behind the scenes” to make it all happen, said KU design lecturer Luke Jordan.

Beginning in May, KU design professor Earl Iversen and Jordan filmed about 150 workers at the four businesses with a video camera shooting more than 25 hours of footage.

Lawrence artists Luke Jordan, left, and Earl Iversen talk to the media during a news conference about Feeding

They tried to capture details of processes mostly invisible to the public, Iversen said.

The pair gave a preview Friday of their exhibition to Spencer Museum of Art Director Saralyn Reece Hardy, museum staff and media members.

The project is a tribute to photographer and artist Lee Friedlander, who depicted American workers in blue-collar and white-collar jobs.

“We have these local companies that are respected, and we wanted to see how we could use video to capture Friedlander’s subject of working in Lawrence,” Iversen said.

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The exhibition includes video projectors mounted on metal crates, splashing continuous video onto four walls of the museum’s central court.

There are images of workers brewing beer, kneading bread, laying cable and gathering news, Iversen said.

“We really wanted to bring work into the museum,” Iversen said.

Lawrence Artists Luke Jordan, left, and Earl Iversen set up a new exhibit Friday at the Spencer Museum of Art at Kansas University. The exhibit features a behind-the-scenes look at four Lawrence businesses.

The constant action, projected onto the walls in 6-foot by 10-foot images, allows viewers a close look behind the scenes.

“What do we do when we consider an image? We kind of create a document of an event. Whether it’s a still photo or video, with this exhibit, we try to show what happens,” Jordan said.

Iversen and Jordan’s final cut and arranged exhibit will be publicly displayed at the museum beginning Sept. 23.

Beginning Sept. 10, in its Kress Gallery, the museum will display the Lee Friedlander art that inspired the KU professors’ project.