ENTRY DESCRIPTION
The black square in the photograph was created with black paint. This is not a digital painting, it is an anamorphic illusion. If the viewer were to take a step to the right or to the left, the perspective would break. That's the point of this piece, that life is all about perspective. Take a moment to look at your problems from a different angle, and you may realize they don't have as strong of a hold on you as you do on them.

As you can see by the subtle shadows on the wall, she is standing directly behind the pillar. A part of her dress falls out from behind. These details ground the subject in reality, allowing the sensible viewer to understand that this image was not a composite. I believe that this is the future of surrealism in photography - to make or to capture the seemingly unreal within reality.

AUTHOR
John Dykstra is a student of photography hailing from Detroit, Michigan, in the midwest of the United States. He was first drawn to photography because of his fascination with light, the way it operates, and our ability to manipulate it in a way that evokes a visceral response. He prefers to shoot landscapes and abstract and surrealistic portraiture, favoring either black and white or subdued color. With 8 years of photographic practice under his belt, John has technical experience ranging from DSLRs to 4×5 field cameras to pinhole camera projects. Pursuing his creative endeavors under the alias ‘Jondy’ as of 2014, Dykstra has plans to undertake numerous creative projects over the next few years. His latest project involves studies of light on the human body in a new collection of fascinating portraits.

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