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Swedish artist Erik Johansson edits pictures to create distinctive, mind-bending collages
A grasp photograph manipulator, he depicts unimaginable worlds utilizing pictures and photograph modifying
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A river that shatters like glass? A canine that floats like a balloon? These weird visuals could appear to be magic at first look, however they’re the cautious handiwork of Swedish artist Erik Johansson, who edits pictures to create fantastically peculiar collages.
“I create these pictures in order to find a connection between two everyday objects in an unexpected way,” says Johansson.
“It’s a look into another world – one that is much like ours, but just a little bit odd and different.”
A grasp photograph manipulator, Johansson’s ‘Perspective Illusion’ collection makes use of pictures and photograph modifying to bend landscapes out of proportion, twist objects past comprehension, and create pictures that depict the unimaginable.
Each collage can take anyplace from one month to half a 12 months to create, however the course of begins with a easy sketch of an concept that Johansson pulls straight from his creativeness onto a scrap of paper.
From there he sources places and objects which are consultant of the thought he has drawn and takes a number of images.
“This is the part that takes the most time, because often I’m trying to source locations and objects for multiple ideas at the same time,” says Johansson, who has been working on the collection since 2011.
It is what he calls “putting the pieces of the puzzle together.”
The third and closing step of his inventive course of entails hours of modifying a mess of pictures into one seamless unimaginable shot, reworking his sketch right into a surrealist picture.
Once this puzzle is full, Johansson leaves it to the viewer to understand the mind-bending illusions as they please.
“I usually don’t talk too much about my work. I’d rather hear what other people have to say. I just present my idea and put a title on it, and leave it up to the viewer – I just hope that people will be be inspired to see and think in a different way.”