For my project, I want to present the themes of ‘union’ through surrealism. I will be doing this by showing the union between the conscious and unconscious mind through photography. I hope that I can create images that are difficult to tell if its real or edited by using long exposure, montaging different images together or staging images in an unorderly fashion. I’ve also been very interested in liminal spaces (a space between reality and the dream), and have a few ideas of how I can capture this space.

I chose to analyse Ray Man as one of my artists. Firstly he works closely with the ideas of surrealism, which links with the idea of union (as explained in my isms blog post). Its all about placing the unconscious into he conscious, which is similar to my plan for this project. He also has a very large range of work to get inspiration from, giving me more options in how I will present this project at the end. For example, his images with juxtaposition create a conflict in the mind on what’s reality and what’s imaginary.

I also chose to analyse Alexander Mourant, as I will be taking inspiration from a few of his projects like Aomori and The Lightness, using colour to help make my images both dream like and fixed in reality at the same time. I will be replicating his process of making images to improve my own.

First photoshoot plan

I’ve already taken a few photos when I went to France during half term and I will likely end up using them towards the end of my project. However, for my first photoshoot I will be replicating some of Mourant’s Images, but using editing software to create the colour I want instead of a filter.