Under the Influence Artist Research
Monic Carvalho, also known as mofart_photomontages on Instagram, has built up a strong portfolio of photo collages that mix up fantasy and reality. She has gained over 136 thousand followers on instagram, and has worked numerous companies and projects before. Her work of compositing photography with everyday objects and out of the box scenes, is an interesting visual to many.
Her work blends things we use/ eat everyday like ice cream, bagels, bridges, etc; and mixes them into scenes that we see everyday as well. Mixing two common but different subjects together to find a common ground. One work she throws together someone taking a bite of a bagel and the cornelius of an eye. You can tell its not real of course, and she purposefully makes it look edited, rather than super realistic. I think this type of look works for her style, as it seems playful and light hearted. You can tell her work is creative and has thought put into it, aiming to be unique from other composite works.
Like other photoshop composite artists, her work is meant to be joyful, eye catching, and not political at all. Most of her work does not critique anything about life or have any philosophical meaning. One of her works combines an ice cream cone and a path in the woods, which are two completely different topics that have no common theme. However, some of her works include female breasts mixed with tunnels are arches. They don't have a serious tone, but it does bring about the topic of the male gaze and the physique of a female body.
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