Superstition
“Superstition”, a super large-scale composite image I created using my photographs of different types of cactus from botanical gardens, mixed with the surreal desert environments I captured around the Superstition Mountains of Arizona. Through my work, my main goal is to create elaborate, photorealistic images that carry a message of conservation and sustainability. I want to give viewers a space of contemplation by depicting beautifully idealized scenes of the natural world.
This piece is one of the largest digital images I have ever created, at a size of 36,000 pixels wide. I use a complex process of digital imaging in Adobe Photoshop and this piece is actually made up more than a hundred photographs meticulously pieced together. So I spend a lot of effort building up an image, figuring out the lighting, shadows, color, and other effects to make it look realistic and seamless. Each image is carefully planned out and created as an intricately layered construction, which gives it such a hyper-real, illustrative quality.
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