Last summer, I was out getting coffee. A man walked over to me. “I’m sorry to disturb you,” he said. “It’s just that you look so much like my sister. She died three months ago.”
He pulled his phone out of his pocket, showed me a picture of a smiling woman.
“You see?” he said tenderly. “Just like you.”
I looked nothing like her. It didn’t matter. I was what he wanted his sister most to be—standing in front of him, talking with him again.
In that moment, proximity was resemblance enough.
THIS ARTICLE WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 3, 2015 ON WISDOMPILLS.COM
Digital artist, surrealist photographer & retoucher Erik Johansson infuses his prints with images portraying an untamed imagination and a bended reality that is, by turns and definition, startling, touching, and wonderfully strange.
Think for a moment about the softened melted clocks in Salvador Dalí’s masterpiece “The Persistence Of Memory.” The surrealism movement lives on in the image-altering tools of Photoshop and the creative powerhouses using it, seeming to channel the hands, mind, and brush of Dalí.
Take a look for yourself…
Go Your Own Road, 2008
Free Breakers, 2015
Wet Dreams on Open Waters, 2008
Iron Man, 2008
Walk a Way, 2014
Cutting Light, 2011
Cut & Fold, 2012
Groundbreaking, 2012
Intersecting Planes, 2011
Arms Break, Vases Don’t, 2008
You can check out more of Erik’s work at his website (with behind the scenes videos), and follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
