1st place
gold star award
Nikolina Petolas
croatia
title
Gentle Giants
This is their story where they take us on a journey to distant but familiar places in some faraway lands, presented in a dreamlike, surreal way. In calming sceneries these animals with personified qualities act as strange but gentle giant characters.
With their presence they bring harmony and raise environmental awareness, they merge urbanization with serene nature, but also open a door to the universe which we cannot see in reality and make us think twice about the way we observe world around us.
By creating peaceful, strange and even humorous situations and twisted animal habitat sceneries which exist somewhere between material world and imagination I want to share my dreamscapes and visions, and offer a fantasy escape from harsh and often cruel reality.
With her works she searches to underline the psychological and social aspects of our identity and effects that endless soul searching has on our lives.
In her metaphorical presentations she uses the observation of inner conflicts and questions that arise from them, as as a dreamy and vivid example to show complex human emotions and drives, as well as her subjective personal experience of the world.
She exhibited worldwide and is a member of several international art projects.
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entry description
Inspired by my childhood dreams and further encouraged with my lifelong love for nature and animals, I wanted to create worlds where animals exist as equal characters, as narrators of a modern fairy tale, who share with us the same environment, but also guide us through these remote, but at the same time beautiful landscapes.This is their story where they take us on a journey to distant but familiar places in some faraway lands, presented in a dreamlike, surreal way. In calming sceneries these animals with personified qualities act as strange but gentle giant characters.
With their presence they bring harmony and raise environmental awareness, they merge urbanization with serene nature, but also open a door to the universe which we cannot see in reality and make us think twice about the way we observe world around us.
By creating peaceful, strange and even humorous situations and twisted animal habitat sceneries which exist somewhere between material world and imagination I want to share my dreamscapes and visions, and offer a fantasy escape from harsh and often cruel reality.
about the photographer
Nikolina is a photographer and visual artist from Zagreb, Croatia.With her works she searches to underline the psychological and social aspects of our identity and effects that endless soul searching has on our lives.
In her metaphorical presentations she uses the observation of inner conflicts and questions that arise from them, as as a dreamy and vivid example to show complex human emotions and drives, as well as her subjective personal experience of the world.
She exhibited worldwide and is a member of several international art projects.
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