big ideas installations JENNIFER NEWSOM AND TOM CARRUTHERS Cofounders Dream the Combine Photos by PABLO ENRIQUEZ and CAYLON HACKWITH Since founding Minneapolis-based studio Dream the Combine in 2013, partners in life and work Jennifer Newsom and Tom Carruthers have played at the intersection of experiential art and design, with projects like Make It Rain and Longing that distort perception in both materiality and experience. Coined by their son, the practice's name reflects the all-encompassing nature of their work, which aims to complicate our relationship with the built environment. "We were staying in Upstate New York pretty close to a farm, and he actually meant a combine harvester. But there was something outside the typical structure of language that was appealing to us," Newsom says.