Creative Flow: A Senior Surreal Photo by Anastasia Garachtchenko (2015)

In this piece there are several examples of metamorphosis, such as the hand morphing into rock and the crayon morphing into the tree. The hand and crayons are much larger than they would be in real life, and the entire image is warped to make it feel like the background is falling off the piece. Also, the crayon is bleeding, like watercolor paint would, another

This piece shows the creative block most artists face. The reason I made the hand out of stone is because I wanted it to represent how immobile you feel when you suffer a creative block. Sometimes all you need to escape from the block is an inspirational though which flows into several ideas. This is represented by the tree, or seed of inspiration, turning into the crayon which eventually flows down the stream of thought.