Create visually convincing portrait of yourself that depicts a reality beyond reality. Juxtapose your image with natural and mechanical objects and textures to suggest the essence or aspects of your personality.
I must affirm that dreams really have a meaning and that a scientific procedure for interpreting them is possible.
SIGMUND FREUD
Explore the Work of Artists who Bend Reality
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- Maggie Taylor
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- Shana & Robert ParkeHarrison
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- Tommy Ingberg
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- Jerry Uelsmann
Maggie Taylor
Known for her innovative style, Maggie Taylor’s technique includes the use of a flatbed scanner instead of a traditional camera to record and interpret the objects she collects. She frequent flea markets and searches on eBay for old tintypes and toys that seem to have a story to tell. She works very spontaneously and intuitively, trying to come up with images that have a resonance and a somewhat mysterious narrative content. There is no one meaning for any of the images, rather they exist as a kind of visual riddle or open-ended poem, meant to be both playful and provocative.
Long Video About her work made by the artist
Shana & Robert ParkeHarrison
Shana and Robert ParkeHarrison explore the triangular relationship of humans, technology and nature. They combine sculpture, painting, set design, performance, photography and implied narrative to create constructed, dreamlike images. Their works are currently included in Festival La Gacilly/Baden Photo, Baden, Austria. Past exhibitions include Mediations Biennale, Poznan, Poland, Lille 3000, Lille, France, and Wall at WAM, Worcester, MA.
Shana & Robert ParkeHarrison Website
Tommy Ingberg
Tommy Ingberg is a photographer and visual artist, born 1980 in Sweden. He works with photography and digital image editing, creating minimalistic and self-reflecting surreal photo montages dealing with human nature, feelings and thoughts.
For me, surrealism is about trying to explain something abstract like a feeling or a thought, expressing the subconscious with a picture.
Tommy leaves the interpretation of his work up to the viewer but says, “For me, surrealism is about trying to explain something abstract like a feeling or a thought, expressing the subconscious with a picture. For my work I use my own inner life, thoughts and feelings as seeds to my pictures. In that sense the work is very personal, almost like a visual diary. Despite this subjectiveness in the process I hope that the work can engage the viewer in her or his own terms. I want the viewers to produce their own questions and answers when looking at the pictures, my own interpretations are really irrelevant in this context. ”
Jerry Uelsmann
As an emerging artist in the 1960s, Jerry Uelsmann received international recognition for surreal, enigmatic photographs (photomontages) made with his unique method of composite printing and his dedication to revealing the deepest emotions of the human condition. Over the next six decades, his contributions to contemporary photography were firmly established with important exhibitions, prestigious awards and numerous publications. Among his awards were a Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment, Royal Photographic Society Fellowship, and Lucie Award.
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