Category: surreal

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Discovery

Discovery, 1994
Discovery, 1994
Discovery

Discovery, 1994

This photo of a futuristic conquistador is from early in my career. The background is a photo of marble stairs from the atrium of the World Trade Center, which was then was flipped, mirrored, and combined with a comp of blue buildings and a red sunset, a 3d render of the image mapped onto a sphere and the wooden man is an actual sculpture from a mansion in the UK.

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The Hive

Empty Hive
The Hive
The Hive

The Hive, 2008

The source for the hive is a photo of the porch from an abandoned house in Northern Virginia. Abandoned buildings are fascinating, because without maintenance nature, encroaches and reclaims what once belonged to it. In this case, the mirroring effect created lots of little insects and other entities, which are actively working to build a home in the abandoned space left by people who, no longer assert their mastery over nature.