Submitted by cecile.chalouni on
Photography allows for the exploration and alternate perception of our daily environment. What touches me most, is seeing the transformation of a priori insignificant objects into meaningful and beautiful ones. My pictures are the result of a wandering and wondering state of mind. My interest expanded to other visual art practices: collages and paintings. In the collages that can be “classic” (paper and glue) or digital, I can pick colors, shapes, models, objects, sceneries. This allows me to use the images made by other artists and incorporate them into mine. This is a common artistic approach, in which the art of someone else resonates in us and can be revisited. I also started painting, experimenting with different types of paints: water color, acrylics, oil paints, inks. My paintings represent sceneries inspired by cities and seashores or ideas summarized by symbols. As I view photography as creating a picture from multiple “outsides”, I view painting as creating one from multiple “insides”. While most of my work is photography, some images are the results of several ones. Combining photography, sometimes images from magazines and paintings through digital processing allows to apply and discover in a fast way various changes a picture can go through, and the different meanings it can convey. By assembling several images, I summarize in one, emotions, stories inspired by personal events.