Hailing from Estonia, Irene Z is a Deviant Art artist who creates stunningly surreal artwork that revolves around imaginatively impossible aquatic adventures. Based on real photographs, the digitally manipulated images feature larger-than-life fishes that can be ridden like horses, water goddesses who wear oceans as gowns and magically interactive aquariums for children.
The water worlds Irene Z creates suggest a post-apocalyptic existence that have perhaps given way to this fantastical way of life. Overlaid with romantic filters, Irene Z's images combines land and sea, showing how similar the two can be. In fact, the science fiction images appear to suggest that human beings themselves have adapted to a new world, becoming marine creatures that roam both the earth and the seas.
Surreal Aquatic Photography
Irene Z Imagines a Post-Apocalyptic Water World
Trend Themes
1. Fantastical Adaptations - Exploring how humans can adapt to a post-apocalyptic world by becoming marine creatures and integrating with the aquatic environment, leading to potential innovations in sustainable living and bioengineering.
2. Interactive Aquariums - Designing aquariums with interactive features and virtual reality technology to enhance the educational and entertainment value, leading to opportunities in the tourism and entertainment industries.
3. Surreal Photography - Incorporating digital manipulation to create surreal and imaginative visual representations, leading to applications in advertising, film, and art industries.
Industry Implications
1. Tourism - Developing immersive and interactive aquarium experiences for tourists, such as virtual reality-enhanced aquariums and aquarium-themed resorts.
2. Entertainment - Utilizing interactive aquariums as a form of entertainment, such as creating aquarium-themed amusement parks and integrating live performances with aquatic animals.
3. Bioengineering - Exploring the adaptation of human beings to a water-based environment and how it can potentially lead to innovation in sustainable living and bioengineering, such as developing new materials and technologies for underwater habitats and transport.