For me, the image always comes first. These images represent slight variations of reality and exist as foggy visions of a dream. Born out of simplicity and inspired by a love for Romantic painting with a dash of the surreal.
To create these elaborate scenes I start with one image, usually the foreground, and combine elements from other photos with the image. I make sure delve really far into each scene to pay attention to every detail. Some final images have three photos and others have as many as six in order to fully create the scene.
The reality within these images is not that different from ours – it seems more like an extension of this one, where parts of the whole look slightly out of place. My intention is not to provide some larger meaning or to even comment on the state of our world, but to simply create a feeling of wonder or offer some sort of visual escape and small narrative. Through the evolution of this series the photos transformed into scenes depicting the beautiful elegance of our world and the quiet destruction of our society. Despite how obvious this theme seems to fit this body of work, each image was created separately with the most important goal being to create a beautiful photo.
