Relying on a complex multi-layered digital post-production methodology to merge real-world photographic baselines into a surreal landscape the unique studio composition frames an emotional narrative that reads like an internal dreamscape. The composition anchors a central crouched human form partially transformed as it seamlessly morphs into a blue sky filled with scattered cumulus clouds illuminated by a brilliant golden sunset glow. This highly tactile organic skin texture balances with a sweeping high-contrast background that blurs the boundaries of reality.
The human body as frame. as the border that separates between inside and outside, between ourselves and the world beyond. within and without, both are infinite.
We react to the world and the world reacts to us. some parts of ourselves diffuse through the border. interacting and affecting the outside. it's in our hands to choose what that effect is.
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Conceptual Surreal Self-portrait - Within and Without. 2021
Within and Without, 2021
Hahnemühle Photo Rag (HPR) 300g
Limited Edition.
Unframed
* Print comes with a 1 in. white border
Originally from Austria, Michaela Haider found her expression in photography at an early age. Drawing inspiration for her early works from the fields and forests, streams and rivers of the region she grew up in. After studying chemistry in Graz, Helsinki and Berlin, the scientific perspective provided even deeper insights into the unifying element of her work — the relationship between the human form and nature, and the materialistic aspect of both.
Her images depict staged worlds that pose and explore the question of this relationship from the human perspective.
Haider's works have been exhibited in Austria, Germany, Spain, and Finland.
