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A house in the sky (Series)
DESCRIPTION
Ever since I can remember, I have been fascinated with astronomy and this interest has now started to inform my artistic practice. What I am trying to represent in my images through fictional and fantastic universes, is how surreal the world we live in is and how relative it all is once we look at the bigger picture that astronomy has brought upon us. I want to open the door to all of these questions in a world where people only focus on their daily life as too frightened to stare into the unknown.
AUTHOR
My name Is Marie De Poortere and I am an art student from Belgium who currently studies artistic direction at LCC.
Originally, I was painting a lot but my artistic experimentations and exploration took me to photography and photoshop collages/enhancement.
My background in painting makes my approach to photo-editing very fine art oriented.
I use the program like a paintbrush to add dreamlike qualities (mainly with light and shadows) onto photographs that I stage, this way creating fantasy worlds.
I am my own model as I am very comfortable in front of the camera and it allows me to get the exact result that I envision.
Experience wise, I spent a summer in New York City in 2016 taking photography classes at the Film Academy, took a year in Fashion styling at Instituto Marangoni in Milan, and a year in NABA, during which my final project (My Milano) was published on the cultural blog of Corriere Della Sera (http://nuvola.corriere.it/2017/07/19/scorci-e-appunti-di-vita-olga-e-milano/).
Originally, I was painting a lot but my artistic experimentations and exploration took me to photography and photoshop collages/enhancement.
My background in painting makes my approach to photo-editing very fine art oriented.
I use the program like a paintbrush to add dreamlike qualities (mainly with light and shadows) onto photographs that I stage, this way creating fantasy worlds.
I am my own model as I am very comfortable in front of the camera and it allows me to get the exact result that I envision.
Experience wise, I spent a summer in New York City in 2016 taking photography classes at the Film Academy, took a year in Fashion styling at Instituto Marangoni in Milan, and a year in NABA, during which my final project (My Milano) was published on the cultural blog of Corriere Della Sera (http://nuvola.corriere.it/2017/07/19/scorci-e-appunti-di-vita-olga-e-milano/).
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