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Snip, mirror, overlap, layer, contrast, tweak



Snip, mirror, overlap, layer, contrast, tweak.


Can you guess the painting? It's Hieronymous Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights, which I included in one of my earlier blogs as well. I scanned one of my intricate paper-cuts, mirrored it on Photoshop and layered it against one of my favourite works, coming up with a number of versions. 


I noted, in an earlier blog post:

I've included this piece because I believe it encapsulates how strange the world feels today; almost surreal, eerie, unpredictable, yet with a glimmer of hope. The contrast is that people are inside their homes instead of out in the open.


The overlapping imagery makes this piece look eerie and surreal, and also brings in layers of complexity that were not present to this extent in the original paper-cut itself.
 Does it draw you in?


How does the context of my paper-cut change?
How does the context of the original painting change?
Is this appropriation on my end? Does this make Bosch's work my work now?


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