Artist Leslie Kell is obsessed with transforming her photography into complex, architecturally-inspired digital collages that entrance the viewer. Passageways lead to dreamlike worlds and gardens filled with mystical delights.
She uses photos of forests and urban scenes, as well as shimmering reflective surfaces like glass and water to create intricate, mind-blowing images. Her astonishing portfolio is divided into collections with names like "Mindscapes" and "Cosmic Tumbler" that are filled with artwork titled after songs by the Grateful Dead and the Talking Heads.
Her ideas spring from a love of Escher's art, though she credits other inspiration as well, such as the fantasy settings in the virtual game "Minecraft" and a natural inclination to use reflective surfaces and hidden animals in many of her compositions.
Kell produces hand-embellished originals, which are digitally printed giclees on canvas, and framed sculpturally with natural wood, or aluminum and copper pipes that give an industrial look. She also offers open edition prints that invite the viewer to step into a surreal, fantasy world.
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"Into the Mystic" open edition digital collage by artist Leslie Kell
"Same as It Ever Was" open edition digital collage by artist Leslie Kell
"Once in a Lifetime" open edition digital collage by artist Leslie Kell
"This Curious Feeling" hand-embellished digital photo collage with sculptural framing by artist Leslie Kell
"Inside Down" open edition digital collage by artist Leslie Kell
"If I Knew the Way" hand-embellished digital photo collage with sculptural framing by artist Leslie Kell
"Time Isn't Holding Us" open edition digital collage by Leslie Kell
"Born Before the Wind" open edition digital collage by artist Leslie Kell
"All That's Still Unsung" open edition digital collage by artist Leslie Kell
