Below are three of my recent finished works. Two of them are created using photoshop, and one is made my hand. The one called “Lucidity,” and the other one called “Portrait, Milla,” are the two made on computer. I wanted to create a sort of dream-like state in “Lucidity,” in which I used all photographs of mine to create the effects and alter them to create a dream land for my subject, who was a cashier for a store I was in. The one called “Portrait, Milla,” I wanted to take and manipulate in order to make it outrageous, yet beautiful. The picture, when I took it, was simply a white background with my subject standing facing me, while I took the picture. I wanted to make something so simple into something extravagant using other photographs of mine along with found objects from South Congress that I scanned.  The final one, “Associate,” was crafted by hand. I took 4 different photographs that I believed went together in a way, then I printed two copies of each, and cut various shapes from them, then I placed them on a scanner, and scanned the objects all together. Then I printed them on 17 in. by 22 in. paper and cut out the object.

Associate.

Portrait, Milla.

Lucidity.