Sometimes when I look at a photo I feel there is an artwork hiding in there. Not in the sense of “enhancing” the photo, but by some kind of distortion. Like if one kneads the photo some artwork may emerge. What artwork will emerge, I don’t know, but something might. And when something does emerge, that pleases my heart, I call it Photo Manipulation Art.
That is what happened with this photograph from a recent trip to a nice place in mountains (Jilling) near Nainital.
After kneading this photo, this is the final artwork that emerged that pleased my heart. I called it Pink Florets Blue Pool.
I make these kinds of photo manipulation artworks quite often, but for the first time I recorded the process. So if you want to see how that photo became that artwork, please see this video.
