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A Midsummer Night’s Dream


The play is all played on the theme of dreams, fantasy and unreality, mixes Greek mythology with the Celtic mythology, folklore and fiction English medieval chivalry. There are three worlds into the play, the transcendental world of fairies and spirits and the earthly world, which is divided into reality (Theseus, Hippolyta …) and theatrical reality (the artisans who stage the tragedy). In the work reality and imagination are reflect each other, so that reality itself seems like a dream.

I set my images in a wood creating portraits of people that are reflected in a mirror, but the image you see in the mirror is not simply the person reflected, but for example the person dressed as a fairy or a forest creature, as if the mirror were a kind of window into a world of fantasy, a dream. This indicates the two worlds that contrast and blend, where you can not distinguish what is real or not. In fact, in the play the fairy world seems to reflect the human’s world; Oberon is the alter ego of Theseus, Titania the alter ego of Hippolyta.

As photos of the opening and closing I thought to consider the issue of the dream. In the first step there will be a person who is asleep, and the last step, however, the same person dressed as a fairy, creating confusion in the viewer, which will be led to wonder “the story in these pictures is real or I dreamed?”.   

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1024x684px 611.38 KB
Make
NIKON CORPORATION
Model
NIKON D610
Shutter Speed
1/400 second
Aperture
F/4.0
Focal Length
86 mm
ISO Speed
100
Date Taken
Mar 20, 2015, 11:50:45 AM
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