"Ode To Maggie", 2015, Digital Illustration

"Ode To Maggie", 2015, Digital Illustration

For me, these illustrations using vintage portraits of people, were an exercise to stretch my imagination and Photoshop skills. Most of them were created while I was working toward an undergrad degree in Photography. Besides the figures, the majority of the assets were my own photos. As I worked on details, sometimes magnified to 200%, I felt an intimacy with the figures. They have been taken out of context to tell a new story and I wondered how they would have felt about that. Were their grandchildren unknowingly friends of mine? Did they die young? How many children did they have? What did they do for a living? Who were they?