In this digital collage, we see a scene from the 1960s of ladies by a swimming pool. They look out over a landscape with palm trees and mountains, and a surreal sky filled with lily pads. What I want to convey with this work is a certain calmness: no matter how crazy your (front) view is, look at it and accept it. In this artwork, the colours have been carefully adjusted and matched. If you have a lot of plants in your interior, this will be a real addition!
I am Irie Wata, a digital collage artist from Haarlem. I combine different layers of imagery with each other to create new surrealistic worlds. In doing so, I like to play with perspective, proportion and clashes in eras to create optical illusions... Read more…