The Manipulation of the Miniature World
Photographs from the easing of the lockdown period. Keywords: Manipulation, shadows, surreal, small world, miniature, reality, rapid change of perspective, abstract, imagination, life, narrative, beyond reality. Surrealism: An idea being strange, not seeming real, beyond or hidden from reality, similar to a dream This portrait painting called The Persistence of Memory who was painted by Salvador Dali is one of the most recognised work on the theme of surrealism, He uses melted clocks to display the idea of special relativity that was discovered by Albert Einstein at the time, which tells us that time distorts depending on our perspective to an object in spacetime or how fast we are travelling. The watch on the bottom left has ants all over it which could show decay, overall the whole picture has interpretations to a dream-like setting. Contact Sheet- Set 1 I build setups and then used light sources to cast shadows onto the wal...
