Assignment 4: Urban Fantasy (surrealism)

I am sorry but blogger doesnt seem to register the colours from my Final Piece as shown below. hmph. I tried to scale down the file size and it doesnt help. -.-'' Anyway the final piece is in my portfolio, as I guess only Ms Jing and me has the chance to see it.

"LOST CHILDHOOD"

I took the pics at Genting Highlands over the last weekend.
The theme park is an incredible place for me to explore surrealism and photography.

As the title of my work "Lost Childhood" explains, I want to capture the feeling of a lost childhood, memories that have been forgotten in this real urban society.

Thats the urban fantasy that i imagined.

In this assignment, I manipulated the pictures using technique like photo montage, meaning cropping different parts of the photo and placing all of them together.

They arent placed randomly, i actually try to portion the pictures to make it look 'balanced'.

For the draft work below, I actually use effects like fading and grayscale to show memories and the past.

And for the final piece, I added in a background and enhanced the work a bit to make it more 'surreal'. I chose to blend the pictures rather then to make it look montaged because I want to show the 'spinning' effects like a time machine that brings you and me back into the past to unravel childhood memories.

Critic of

The Temptation of St. Anthony, c.1946

by Salvador Dali

This picture depicts the feeling of lust and temptation towards the lady on top of the horses.
The long legs of the horses suggest to me that its a terrible feeling to be watching the ladies on the ground as its something that one should not imagine or even think about. There's also use of christianity - the cross held by Anthony. He's using his faith in his religion to counter the feeling of lust.