https://www.pinterest.com/AnLaJa/surrealism-fantasy-collages/

http://glazecophoto.blogspot.com/2010/11/30-examples-of-crazy-surreal-photo.html

Title: Colliding Worlds

Description: I want to explore the idea of human imagination. I am very interested in fantasy worlds and how we like to insert ourselves into them. We create stories in our heads, or invest in various media with imaginative worlds we immerse ourselves in, usually as a form of escapism. I want to capture that feeling visually using photography, digital manipulation, and drawing. The backgrounds would be shot with the camera, mostly scenes in nature. The scenes would be manipulated and drawn on to look more fantastical, i.e. turning foliage an unnatural color like purple or adding a creature that doesn’t exist in real life. Looking at the photos would elicit feelings of confusion and curiosity as one wonders what kind of world is being depicted, as well as the contrasting elements of 2 and 3D. The existence of both 2 and 3D elements references my interests of living in the world of cartoons as a child, and as a way for me to combine my interest in drawing with photography. I am choosing to draw digitally because it allows more flexibility and doesn’t come with limitations on what I can use to draw directly on the photos. Each photo will likely have some repeating elements that connect each of them together.

Outcomes: Four 10×8 (landscape orientation) printed matte color photos, placed at eye level, arranged on the wall horizontally or in a rectangle shape.

Methods and Materials: Photos edited in Photoshop, drawings done digitally using Wacom tablet and then edited into the scene.

References: Surrealism in general. The photos would have a similar aesthetic to a piece I did previously:

here he comes

The fast pace of the video almost made it hard to follow, with the varying images and sounds played together and moving rapidly. Certain images stuck out though, because of the constant repetition, such as the dead birds. Each time they showed the birds it felt uncomfortable but was also interesting in a way. You could tell they were being used for identification/scientific purposes, due to the way they were organized so efficiently and had tags on their feet. Each time the video flashed back to the birds there were different species, both large and small birds, so they presented some form of variation but it was probably the one thing in the video that every time it came up I was completely aware of it. The videos of these dead birds and other animals juxtaposed with the man’s voice talking about creation myths evoked a strange feeling. It feels like  commentary about the nature of life. Along with the birds, there is also a lot of human hand imagery, which sort of adds an element of human control. The feeling we get is that these dead animals are not entirely natural, and are being controlled by the hand of humans.