'Great times ahead' was made during the pandemic that started in 2020. I wanted to depict a scene we could all look forward to: enjoying each other in nature without having to keep distance. That is what the title of this work also describes. I have a fascination with cornfields and sometimes dream of walking underneath them. It gives me a certain peace to feel so small and to be part of nature.
I am Irie Wata, a digital collage artist from Haarlem. I combine different layers of imagery with each other to create new surrealistic worlds. In doing so, I like to play with perspective, proportion and clashes in eras to create optical illusions... Read more…