METAMORPHOSIS

'Daddy Longlegs of the evening - Hope!'
- SALVADOR DALI

I thought that looking at Surrealism would be a good way to see how psychological theories can translate into something visual. The movement was inspired by Fruedian theories about dreams and the subconscious mind. Surrealist images are presented in an abstracted and dreamlike manner, where the viewer is only able to process the information based on the knowledge attained from a realistic world. I thought the skin on the melting figure in this image almost looks like fabric.



Blurring the boundaries between skin and garment. Draped skin and flesh like material?



I did this collage in Surrealist style, which prompted more refined questions. Imagine a garment made of limbs. How will we know it's a garment? How will it be interpreted? What information do we recall in order to make a judgement? How conscious are we of these associations? How does a reinterpretation of what we've already processed change our perception?



Morphed barbies.



I created this image on photoshop - just to see how I might be able to blurr the boundaries of skin and garment, as the distinction between the layered images become unclear. The viewer has to anaylise the visual information to work out where one ends and the other begins.