This image was inspired by Cornelia Hediger's work in her Doppelgänger series, specifically the seventh in the series which shows a woman holding a deer head in an intimate manner, with the same deer head repeating over the back of the couch she is laying on as though it is peeping in on her. The original image is segmented into six equal rectangles, but I decided to try something different and took a cubist approach to my image. I also wanted to have a non-rectangular portrait that had different shaped borders, so I left the image's top edge blocky. I was also going for a sort of magnifying glass feeling to the image, and wanted it to sort of pop out. It looks much better on a transparent background than plain white like it appears here.
It was really hard to match the backgrounds of the different images to fit together so that they are not exact, but are similar enough that they blend together and it takes a second glance to notice the size differences. I also had slightly different exposures and the coloration came out different in different images. These elements I thought were important to remain consistent so I had to compensate and correct the images a bit. I also did not leave enough border space on the edges of some of the images, so I had a lot of practice with my best friend, the patch tool, while editing the photographs to be longer and appear to contain more space than they actually do.
I was going for a strange whimsical feel to this picture because that is a very fitting theme for my mom. I wanted it to be stylized and interesting and edgy but also contain elements of her personality.
It is taken outdoors in overcast diffused lighting.
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