"I create collages. I take pictures of houses, technical objects, people, and basically anything I find interesting, and juxtapose them. I adjust the individual images, cut them out, and give them a different color. The result is a structure that is like an independent being. Sometimes it's beautiful, sometimes it's awkward or even a little eerie. The individual elements are in tension with each other. They are like rhymes in a short visual poem."
"Very often, the ideas come to me while I'm taking photos. Later, I edited the images with Photoshop. I don't use AI at all. When working on the computer, there is an initial phase of experimentation. This can sometimes be tough. For a long time, nothing exciting happens. Only when I feel that I have a solid framework does the magic happen. Then, at some point, the image takes shape on its own."
Surreal collages are built by photographing houses, technical objects, people, and other found subjects, then cutting, recoloring, and juxtaposing those elements to form new structures. The assembled images become independent beings that can feel beautiful, awkward, or eerie due to tensions between elements. Collages often begin with a rough vision of an exciting combination and a clear impression of the finished picture. Photographs are taken on excursions or short trips and edited in Photoshop without using AI. A period of experimentation and a solid compositional framework precede a phase when the image takes shape autonomously.
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