Noscope December is an attempt to step back in history to the surrealists. Surrealism was a movement, and the surrealists tried to penetrate the crust of the existing reality in search of the true reality – the super reality. Hence the name, "sur – realisme", french for "over-realism".
About "Surrealisme"
It all really started with an illustration I saw in a Danish magazine called "Ud & Se". It was an illustration accompanying an article about "mind medication", and showed a blissfully smiling man, with his head being poetically dragged apart as though it was goo. It was a lovely inspiration, and reminded me that Photoshop has just such a tool, called "Liquify". I cut out the illustration, and hung it in my kitchen. It was enough for me to decide to explore the "liquify" tool this December.
I did the images chronologically this month, so picture #5 was the last one I did over a period of two days. I do think I went overboard with the liquification of the clouds in some of the images, but all in all, I'm satisfied with the final result.
As for the composition of the images, since the very purpose was to explore the liquify tool under the cover of "Surrealism", I wanted a big canvas to liquify. As such, I have purposefully let the clouds be the major player in the images.
The tiled ground/forests in the bottom of the images, that too, is on purpose. On one hand it adds to sense that "something's not quite right here", and on the other hand it clearly communicates "this is just decoration, look at the interesting part above".
The huge tree limb, or tree tops in the right of the images are there for a couple of reasons. First of all, it looks eerie, and adds some dynamic to an image that would otherwise just be a vista. Secondly, it adds distance from the background to the individual tree.
Music
The beautiful musical track is, as always, composed by Kate. This specific track, is one of my absolute favourites – let it play for a few minutes to get the full experience.