Some might call me a photographer, but I am really a painter in disguise who uses photographic images as my palette. I love the process of collaging multiple images into compositions. I think of my source images as my digital Silly Putty. On the computer I manipulate, layer and blend them together to create new visual realities.
Visually penetrating, uneasy, yet surprisingly familiar, my photographic images question the viewers’ assumptions about their relationships with the world. Honest examination and amplification of toys, mundane objects, and domestic debris creep under the audience’s skin utilizing aesthetic seduction as a means of attraction and subversion as a means of affecting.
All images © Kati Toivanen