Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting
Syn Beresford’s “BARMIE” is one of those pictures that don’t make sense at first glance, but then you look more closely and are glad you stopped to figure it out. As I scrolled down, I mistook this for a tree with ravens and some critters crawling around, maybe a spider. So I stopped, looked closer, saw the lips and then the whole of it and was enchanted in a creepy sort of way. But that is a hallmark of Syn Beresford’s work. It will be beautiful, but she often will add an element of the macabre to make it just slightly weird in the sense of Lovecraft’s weird.
“Life Is Messy” captures Syn’s worldview well. It’s all very normal on the surface. But there on the side, you can see the deeper truth. Even when it’s wonderful, it’s messy.
“Spring at Elysion Estates” is an exemplar of her other focus, on outdoor photography. She focuses in on the details. The drape of a towel, an abandoned car, or in this case a decaying tree stump. She does an occasional landscape, but most are like this one, finding beauty in the overlooked.
Syn Beresford’s photostream is adventurous. The pictures are extraordinary, not just because they are beautifully composed, but because she has a gimlet-eye behind the lens. She loves the weird, offbeat, and weird and sees not just the sweep of a beautiful vista, but the overlooked beauty of the old, the forgotten, and the left behind.
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