Window To Another World

I discovered Przemek Nawrocki on this website. I really like how he seamlessly blends photography with the digital, however the image above (of the horse) is quite a stereotypical photoshopped image. It's quite dreamy and romantic. I am really interested in digital art and I've taught myself to use Photoshop, and I wanted to try out more ambitious projects. My favourite work by Nawrocki is the one of the horse galloping through, what I think of as, 'a window between worlds. I explored this idea to create a couple of photos I titled 'A Window Between Worlds'. I also had in my mind, when I was creating these, the book 'The Subtle Knife' by Philip Pullman because in the book the characters Will and Lyra jump between different worlds,  by tearing through the fabric between these worlds. 

This is a sketchbook page showing the lead up to my first 'Window Between Worlds' piece. I edited together my own photographs, you can see the originals at the bottom of the sketchbook page.

(I only edited the text on the page above because in my sketch book the final image was above this page, on this blog it is below.)

This is my first 'Window Between Worlds' piece: 

It is much more aggressive than Nawrocki's picture of the horse, because of the aggressive looking helicopter coming through from one world to another.

This is the sketchbook page for my second 'Window Between Worlds' piece.

It originally looked like this without the person:




























This is the final outcome:

 

I am really pleased with the final outcome. The person coming through the 'window' makes the image so much more interesting. My aim was to create something futuristic-looking, I think I have succeeded. The viewer questions the image. Who is the person? Where are they from? Are they from the past arriving in the future or vice versa or are they just moving from one place to another? 

My two pieces are similar in their idea to Nawrocki's work, because looking at his work gave me the idea, but mine are different from his because they are more subtly photoshopped, yet it is still obvious that they have been edited.