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Collage artist Minas Halaj transforms his female subjects into fantastical visions by framing, and often veiling, them with flowers and butterflies. These joyful additions contribute a surreal energy to the portrait, encouraging the viewer to consider the women as figments of the artist’s imagination.
Similarly, Martin Stranka embraces surrealism by capturing a heightened, imaginative reality through his alluring photographs. In “I Bloom for You,” he photographs a car filled with flowers, and in doing so, he transforms the mundane into something extraordinary. His photographs excite the …