Houck-+Metaphor

The artist that has inspired me is Jerry Uelsmann. In his photos he usually creates works that make the viewer question what they are looking at. At a quick glance, you could think that nothing is wrong or different in the pictures. But after taking a longer look you start to see more and more of what he has altered to create his surrealistic works. In a few of his works he plays with shadows and a creates things we're familiar with into different and new objects, which are aspects I'd incorporate into my final work. The quote I'd like to use for my project is "When life robs you, sometimes you need to rob it back" from The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. I choose this quote because it can be read so many different ways, some take it as a robbing of their things (how the book depicted it), some of a chance or a choice, or a literal robbing of life. For mine, I'd like to take the robbing of life a bit further and change it into a rescue mission from death itself. Like Jerry Ueslmann, I'd like to create a landscape of bouncing shadows from the effect of warm natural lighting of fire to harsh lighting sources onto a textured backdrop.