Spiral Stairs: Surreal Architectural Photography

At the core of this work of digital art is a winding stairway descending in a geometrically pleasing repetition reminiscent of the graceful curves within a chambered nautilus. This photographic art represents surreal architectural photography, focusing on a feature from the building’s interior.

The photographic collage pulls in natural elements with the transparent layer of bare gray tree branches deftly positioned over the pale stairway. Without closer inspection, the branches appear as a network of cracks in the stairs. The branching forms spread into the surrealistic digital art from the upper right, not reaching the center of the spiral. Do these represent an intrusion of a future vision where the stairs and enclosing building have crumbled to be replaced by forests? Or is this a desire to be free from the constraints of the man-made world?

As a work of surreal photography, this fine art collage combines three fractal forms, the elegantly curving organic form of the stairs, the branching trees, and the digitally cloned yellow and purple scaffolding into a mystical composition with its own logic and cohesion.

The colored lines form repeating geometric shapes resembling an inscribed star. These are in sharp contrast to the muted grays and weathered whites of the rest of the surreal photographic art piece. While on the stairs, the lines retain their shape but appear to be pulled to the center of the spiral in wisps of energy. Both the branches and architectural lines are transparently layered over the spiral stairway.

The view is straight down into the heart of the surrealistic spiral, and visual movement in this photographic art circles and descends into a swirling vortex. The very center of the spiral is obscured by the mass of purple and yellow lines flowing off the stairs and into the void below.