Video: Alice in Waterland. Unusual underwater photos of Elena Kalis
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Lewis Carroll's tale of a funny little girl Alice and her incredible adventures in Wonderland or Through the Looking Glass has been a powerful inspiration for artists and other types of contemporary art for several centuries in a row. Variations on the theme of this immortal work are always extremely curious and original, but no one has ever dipped Alice and her entire magical world under water. This was done by a photographer and artist. Elena Kalis in your art project Alice in Waterland, starring her own daughter. The underwater world is wonderful in itself. It is full of mysteries and unanswered questions, incredible fantasies are born here and dreams come true, in the underwater world even the most ordinary things and events seem unearthly, unreal, as if they came out of the world of dreams and sweet fairy dreams. A person under water feels so free and relaxed that he wants to spread his wings and fly. And he flies, swaying on the waves, pushed by the current. It is not surprising that children are so eager to participate in Elena Kalis' photo sessions, because they like fairy tales like no one else and dream of learning to fly.
As a rule, her daughter becomes the main character of Elena Kalis' fairytale photo sessions. She tries on the images of Alice, Cinderella, Wonder Woman, the princess and the pea and many other characters who are difficult to imagine here in the underwater world. But the author of art projects argues that working under water is comparable to traveling to another dimension, but can't it turn out that here, in another dimension, the actions of fairy tales take place not on land, but under water? Living and working in the Bahamas, Elena Calis is used to being inspired by the ocean, listening to the waves, admiring the surf, walking along the water's edge and enjoying the light breeze and its amazing salty taste on her lips. Probably, it was he who motivated the artist to sink under the water in order to see from a different angle what has long been familiar and familiar, and in this form to present to the audience.
In the works of Elena Kalis, the water element demonstrates all the facets of its complex and sometimes difficult nature. Today she is kind and affectionate, transparent and light, giving life, inspiration and hope. And the next moment it suddenly becomes harsh and gloomy, dark and evil, taking away all that light and bright that was given once. You can get acquainted with the amazing underwater worlds of the photographer on her website.
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