Storytelling Through Fantastical Landscapes

To be quite honest, human bodies with animal heads really creep me out. But I can't help adoring these photo collages by Parisian artist Wanda aka IceKubi. Her surreal landscapes are inspired by fairytales, stories told by her Polish grandma, and her great love of colour, which is one of the things that draws me to her work. She mixes photography and her own drawings or combines multiple photographic images to create her 'stories' - which is what I'm calling them as you imagine all kinds of narrative just looking at one of these magical pictures:

Two images of flowers from her garden were combined:



This collage below has a Man Ray-like quality, and reminds me of a
photo of him and his wife Juliet. A visiting French art professor I
had in university told of a time in Paris where he came across
Juliet Man Ray, who was  destitute, selling off rare originals
of her late husband's work for peanuts.

For those who love René Magritte: