If you think Instagram is all about food pictures and selfies, think again! More and more people are using Instagram as a new way to get really creative.
Now, we're not saying pictures of food are bad. After all, we're really impressed with these amazing and romantic symmetrical breakfasts created by one Instagrammer.
But some artists prefer to show off their talent in ways that are less grounded in reality.
One such artist is Jati Putra Pratama, a graphic designer from Jakarta, Indonesia. Using various digital editing programs, he turns everyday photos of cities, oceans, and landscapes into wild and dreamlike worlds.
By combining recognizable places and objects in ways most people would never think of, he creates worlds that are at once familiar and bizarre. But they're always magical.
Take a look for yourself and see the possibility in the places you pass every day.
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His scenes involve combinations of buildings, oceans, clouds, and human and animal figures. All the elements are blended together digitally into these hazy, dreamy scenes.
Jati likes to play with scale, too. You'll often see large things shrunk down and small things blown up to huge sizes. The effect is disorienting and creates an instantly alien world.
Sometimes he even uses satellite images for inspiration, creating huge, sweeping scenes.
And sometimes, his edits are small and subtle, but still create a magical impact.
In some, he uses the colors and textures of two totally unrelated things to create a sort of visual pun. In the one above, the brown sands of the desert become a steaming mug of coffee or cocoa. The title is "Dessert?"
Besides playing with size and scale, Jati also likes to create disorienting scenes where it's hard to tell which way is up, and where air and water flow together into an unexpected sky.
In this way, he creates layers of action that are more than a little mind-bending.
Another of his favorite tricks is bending the horizon at a sharp angle, creating crazy, impossible planes of existence.
The landscapes he creates have a magical, fairy-tale quality to them.
And with their soft, luminous colors and hazy light, even the most disorienting of his images seems to suggest a world full of magic, beauty, and endless possibility. You can see much more of Jati's work on his Instagram, including more manipulated landscapes and some of his graphic design work, too. And don't forget to SHARE his artwork with someone who might need a fresh perspective on the world!
