For this project, I started by combining a bunch of random unrelated ideas I had into a singular composition, which gradually got more and more chaotic, and by the end my scene looked apocalyptic and cryptic as hell. There’s no real message to my piece, but I think the fun of it is that it doesn’t make sense, and so viewers can interpret it in a million different ways. That’s also what I love about surrealism as a genre, that things can look as weird and meaningless as the artist wants.
I used a large combination of techniques, the most useful of which was probably changing the blending options to get rid of white backgrounds in stock images I found on the internet. I also used blur filters on many of the flying objects in the sky to make my scene look like a freeze frame. One of my friends also suggested I add an overlaying texture on top to unify my piece, and so I added a VHS texture on top to make my composition look like found footage of armageddon.
I really enjoyed the creative freedom I had throughout this project, which I probably wouldn’t have had as much of in a realistic project, and I liked being able to just add more and more ideas to my piece until they amalgamated together into something horrific and awesome.
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