While
browsing through a photo website, I came across Dominique and I thought they
were drawings at first! Why, I asked myself, would there be drawings on a
photography website? Dominique was originally a trained sculptor and moved into
the photo realm. After traveling the world she decided to reimagine the images
and landscapes she saw. Amazingly, “the imposing mountain range turns out
to be a trivial thin silk paper piece, the idyllic beach a thin plastic bag and
the impressive glacier as a mere queuing of cotton balls.” This was absolutely mind blowing to me. Every
image was completely hand made then photographed through a copier. These two
aspects were the most fascinating to me by far.
Besides
being absolutely gorgeous photographs, I’m not sure that there is much of a
conceptual intention. Sequentially, I
began to feel the potential for a couple concepts. There could have been
intentions to convey that our hands are what shape our environment, or that, we
are easily tricked by our eyes into believing something is real when in reality
is a fraud.
Personally,
I cannot seem to get past how much time and effort just one of these photos
must have taken. I’m also blown away by the realism that she conveys despite
how flat all of her materials are. I was not necessarily emotionally impacted
in any way, but I am definitely inspired to try everything. Prior to finding
Dominique I would have never thought her method would produce such stunning
images, yet there they are standing tall.
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