Article first published on my personal blog at HIVE. (Spanish Original)
Hello friends and members of the #LMAC community, I hope you are having a nice and productive day. It's been a while since my last post in the community, so I missed participating and dedicating some time to creating and sharing.
Today, I would like to share with you this photomanipulation that I made using collage techniques. For this, I was inspired by a very common resource in classic collage, which consists of replacing the faces of the characters with objects, creating a representative visual composition. Endowing the new result with symbolism, depersonalizing the subject, giving it new characteristics, and adding to the general surrealist atmosphere of the composition. This practice has its roots in Dadaism, which sought to explore beyond the established artistic norms of the time and play with the subconscious.
I used pink as the main color for the composition. This is a color that I work with very little, but I think I will start using it more often, especially because of the versatility of its tones and excellent combinations through a monochromatic palette.
The flower, a symbol of personal growth and transformation, represents the constant evolution of the mind to higher forms, full of flourishing ideas and thoughts. The bee, always associated with productivity and work, is attracted to the new ideas of the flower, but it is an insect that can sting us at any moment, causing pain in us and its imminent death. The steam rises slowly from the cup, implying warmth, but perhaps also the evaporation of small and bad feelings, ideas, and emotions to make way for new and magnificent thoughts, leaving behind clouds that represent a past of storms and martyrdoms. The substitution and lack of a face lead us to pose a struggle to be ourselves, against beauty standards and self-perception implanted in modern society.
I especially liked the combination, in my opinion, successful, of natural and human elements that achieved organic growth. I hope it has at least achieved an invitation to reflection and interpretation of multiple meanings.
Image source: Image by Мелия from Pixabay Image by Ethar from Pixabay Imagen de József Szabó en Pixabay
I sincerely want to thank you for taking the time to read this article. Your support means a lot to me and motivates me to continue sharing content that can be useful and interesting for you. If you found this article useful or enjoyed reading it, I would greatly appreciate your comments. Success.
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I apologize if there are any grammatical errors, English is not my native language, I have tried to be as careful as possible.
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