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Lucas Simões is a Brizillian artist who works are heavily influenced by his background in architecture and design. He pictures contain surreal elements by burning through the photographs, often with a developed concept behind them. Simões however, does not always take the photo himself, but rather borrow a few from other artists, and add his own twist to them by both burning and adding the solid coloured areas seen later below.

 

Dry Your Tears

In the photos above labled "Dry Your Tears", Simões explores the taking out a person's soul/ identity, through only targetting the eye areas to burn. Often a peron's eyes reveal a lot about their feelings and emotions, and taking away such aspect really captures the emptiness within the person and how much identity means. 

 

Although the photos themselves aren't exactly of a disturbing nature, the process and destruction of them using such a brutual and confronting media to especially creature such sensitive and emtional forms results in a bizzare but beautiful work.

 

I personally really like Simões' works, as I find them weirdly enchating to look at. The photographs are so simple yet the concept and ideas they hold are so dark and deep. The burning through of the photographs also give of a really surreal and dream like aura, and I think the way he manipulates the photographs is quite smart and unique as well. I think it's because of just how much the redness or burntness of the fire is, is that it creates a contrast between the two elements on the paper.

 

With only a simple back ground a close up of the subject, the work itself is straightforward but in a sense also makes you want to delve deeper. I am really inspired by his work and surrealist ideas that Simões explores, and would like to take them on and give them a go in my own photos