I wanted to center my piece around the idea of fleeting childhood. Before I knew it, I was already a senior in high school, and I really wonder how the years passed by so quickly. I wanted to represent our childhood with the use of the silhouette of the child dancing in the broken window. Just like how a window shatters suddenly and unexpectedly, our childhood seems to end abruptly without warning. The broken watch on the floor is meant to symbolize how we lose track of time, and the moments we are a child don’t seem to last long enough.
For this piece, I really wanted a dreamy, surreal effect, so I used a variety of blend modes and clipping masks. I used the blend modes to blend the background in with the stars, and the ocean, and I used clipping masks to take subjects like the dancing girl, the moon, and the watch on the floor from other photos and combine them into my piece.
Creating Surreal Compositions is something that I had never done before, and it was quite hard to come up with an idea since I had the freedom to basically create anything, and not have to worry about it looking realistic. I would definitely do this again in the future, as the process was relaxing, but I also challenged myself with different techniques in Photoshop that I had rarely or never used before.
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