ICONS: Floria Sigismondi
24 March 2010 | By HUSVARThe creative process is such an mysterious phenomenon, equally elusive to scientists as it is to artists. While the human experience demands that we strive to understand it, our own inner workings will forever remain a gray space, an unknown method of connections with or without resolution. In my blog series ICONS, I will attempt to examine my creative process as I divulge my greatest sources of inspiration, my biggest influences, and what drives me the most as an artist.
The photographer and director Floria Sigismondi has a unique style that continues to develop throughout her career. Her dark contrast-driven imagery has a nouveau-surrealist feel to it that makes it intoxicating to experience. Each viewing is an opportunity to step into an alternate reality forcing you to reinterpret your own. Her work often contains political undertones, a challenge to question authority, and the social mores that define our culture.
Looking at some of her earliest work, the elements of her style were all present even if they hadn’t yet fully coalesced. Through the use of selective focusing and playing with time-scale, she not only created alternate universes, she created unique ways to experience these surrealist environments.
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