Lizzette González Photography
Magical Realism
The theme for this photographic series is Magical Realism. My work is based on the novels from this literature genre. However, I do not wish to illustrate the books, but instead, to take ideas from certain subtleties in the texts, such as quotes, symbology and metaphors.
My aim is to represent the images and feelings of the subconscious, as well as to try reproduce the ambient of the scenarios I imagined while reading these books. Magical realist novels usually include fantastical and mythical elements such as occultism, mysticism, magic, metaphysics, reincarnation and themes like death and transcendental love; Moreover, they share a sense of mystery, hidden meanings, and social critique.
Magical realism plot lines characteristically have multiple planes of reality and wild shifts in time. Furthermore the complicated plots are usually open-ended, expansive, open-minded and deep. Magic Realism is characterized by an equal acceptance of the ordinary and the extraordinary. A novel may include dreams taking place during normal life and the return of previously deceased characters.
Visually I will include aspects of Magical Realism such as unusual juxtapositions, eerie atmospheres, and mystery or ambiguity. I will use photomontage to create this images, combining different photographs and textures.
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"Ensayo Sobre La Ceguera" (Blindness) - Jose Saramago
"Immortality" - Milan Kundera "She said to herself: when once the onslaught of ugliness became completely unbearable, she would go to a florist and buy a forget-me-not, a single forget-me-not, a slender stalk with miniature blue flowers. She would go out into the street holding the flower before her eyes, staring at it tenaciously so as to see only that single beautiful blue point, to see it as the last thing she wanted to preserve for herself from a world she had ceased to love. "
"Como Agua Para Chocolate" - Laura Ezquivel “El cuarto oscuro se convirtió en un volcán voluptuoso. Lanzaba piedras y ceniza por doquier. Las piedras en cuanto alcanzaban altura estallaban, convirtiéndose en luces de todos los colores.”
