SWEET DREAMS ARE MADE OF THESE NOW

ISABELLE MENIN

There is a special beauty that hangs in the twilight zone -- the straddle between reality and dreams. Fine art photographer Isabelle Menin makes magic in this space with her floral fantasy images.

Menin takes exceptionally beautiful photos of flowers, scans fragments of the images, then composes incredible photomontages beyond our wildest dreams.

It is evident that Menin began as a painter. Her photos exude a painterly quality, inspired by 15th and 16th Century Flemish Primitives such as Paul Rubens, Jan van Eyck, Hans Memling & Rogier van der Weyden.

Menin’s use of light, texture and color, evoke the most brilliant, yet tender daydreams. She describes her compositions as “Inland photographs and disordered landscapes,” referencing realities within fictional worlds.

Organic forms bloom with technical prowess. The mind drifts with each set of possibilities. We dream of being immersed in Menin’s dreams as she triggers points of departure within our own imaginations.

See more of Menin’s dreamy work here. And check out Menin’s exhibitions at Louvre Carousel Fotofever.

Read more about Beautiful Daydreams in A Re-Imagined Dream is Beautiful Now in Dreamland and Honeybees Dream the Sweetest Dreams.

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IMAGE CREDITS:

1. Image: by Isabelle Menin. “Pink Storm.”
2. Image: by Isabelle Menin. “Echo 6.”
3. Image: by Isabelle Menin. “Pink Storm 3.”
4. Image: by Isabelle Menin. “Lude.”
5. Image: by Isabelle Menin. “There’s A River In My Head.”
6. Image: by Isabelle Menin. “Echo 3.”
7. Image: by Isabelle Menin. “For Lumas.”
8. Image: by Isabelle Menin. “Ulalume - The Graves.”
9. Image: by Isabelle Menin. “Ulalume / The graves - Et Marcel dans le ciel.”
10. Image: by BN App - Download now!
11. Image: by Isabelle Menin. “L'embarquement pour Cythère 02.”