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A woman looking out of a window at a crowded city situated on top of a waterfall landscape, which itself is situated on a layer of pink clouds.

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This image was created because of a desire I had to more actively use digital photo manipulation for artistic purposes. I think that the use of real images in an surreal context lends a level of legitimacy that is absent from expressions of surrealism in other mediums. The way that the city tilts along with the natural landscape it sits on is similar to the way that the clouds wrap and twist into one another. These aspects of the image contrast nicely with the rigid and straight framing offered by the window and the woman. This image was primarily influenced by the works of Christopher Nolan and Julio Cortázar. Nolan's Inception features a famous city-bending set piece as well as a general surreal tone. Cortázar's novels were major influences on the genre of magic realism, which combines the surreal with the mundane. I feel that this juxtaposition is present in the image, as the window acts as a sort of boundary between the two. The inside of the window is rigid, muted, and mundane, whereas the outside of the window is skewed, saturated, and fantastical.

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