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A selection of images I used as inspiration and as part of my piece 

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A selection of images I used as inspiration and as part of my piece 

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Tropical and subtropical coniferous forests

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Corner Overgrown Garden ~ Anna Surakova (Top) ~ Ivan Shishkin (Bottom)

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Corner Overgrown Garden ~ Anna Surakova (Top) ~ Ivan Shishkin (Bottom)

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The lighting in these paintings is very bright and warm, presenting nature, even in a chaotic overgrown state, as beautiful.

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Road near Mont Sainte-Victoire ~ Cezanne

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Road near Mont Sainte-Victoire ~ Cezanne

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This post-impressionist piece is dominated by the colour green with the bottom half of the piece covered in a variety of shades. There is a single building, a house, in the distance which is painted with more shades of yellow and green, making it seem almost a part of the forest. Nature is reflected and reciprocated in the manmade structure.

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The Secret garden~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

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The Secret garden~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

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The garden in Burnetts novel is almost always depicted as overflowing with an abundance of nature. This overwhelming power of plant life (particularly around the gardens entrance) is something I wish to convey in my piece.

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There is a contrast between light and dark imagery and by extension tone, exploring the complexity and contradictions of nature.
There are a lot of dark greens combined with  muted yellows and blues creating a rather desolate and melancholic atmosphere.

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This game is filled with overgrown ruins and vibrant green natural imagery across vast landscapes. In areas of overgrown nature, the soft, warm lighting and peaceful atmosphere of the game suggest tranquillity in nature, despite its somewhat destructive actions.

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Drained Reservoir, Taiwan~ Jonathan Jimenez

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Drained Reservoir, Taiwan~ Jonathan Jimenez

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The photo is divided by light and dark, green and white, the man-made and the natural, history and present day.

Throughout Jimenez's project plant life is shown to be overtaking man-made structures of some kind, implying a victory of nature over humanity. This gives a sense of melancholy but also of a rightful return to the natural order (as connoted by the bright and colourful imagery).

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Jonathan Jimenez

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Jonathan Jimenez

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Jonathan Jimenez

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This Animated film contains a lot of imagery of large scale plant life (particularly fungal). The tone of the film along with the lighting and colours of these landscapes creates a rather oppressive and hopeless feel to the imagery, humans have lost and can never return.

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In the opening scenes of this film, the countryside is shown to be vibrant with nature ever present, existing symbiotically with the villagers. Although structures are overgrown, it is implied that they are in a sustainable state, creating a balance between humans and nature.

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Similar to Kiki's village, the castle Laputa consists of modern buildings intertwined and peacefully coexisting with nature.

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An apocalypse film in which victory of nature over humans is shown more through animal life, but overgrown plant life is still present and symbolises/ reinforces the downfall of the human world.

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Matthias Haker
The light and use of warm tones in this image give a positive atmosphere to a display of abandonment and deterioration.

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Matthias Haker

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Matthias Haker

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Matthias Haker

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Ancient architecture being overtaken by an ancient tree. The natural patterns created by the roots are the star of this photo.

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Nature clashing with the strict geometry of a modern concrete world to create beautiful patterns.

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Invasion of the Dunes~ Marsel Van Oosten

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Invasion of the Dunes~ Marsel Van Oosten

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An abandoned house in a Namibian ghost town. The complementary shades of blue and yellow is pleasing to the eye, contrasting the utter destruction of what was once a home.

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Vibrant, colourful nature has almost entirely masked the urban concrete in this Parisian scene, demonstrating the pleasing victory of nature over man.

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Wild Concrete, Hong Kong ~ Romain Jacquet-Lagreze

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Wild Concrete, Hong Kong ~ Romain Jacquet-Lagreze

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In this series of photos, nature is the focus, but only fills a small fraction of the frame, demonstrating the oppressive power of our concrete world. However the concrete could also be said to be an exciting canvas for nature, or a symbiotic partner allowing plants to grow.

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Although this film has little relevance to the themes im looking at, the modern architecture placed in a wild forest makes for a beautiful contrast between nature and humanity. Although wood paneling has been used to help blur the lines of this division and possibly suggest a synchronicity between nature and man.

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A modern post-apocalyptic game, in which we can see nature reclaim the abandoned world. Similar to BOTW there is bright lighting through a lot of the game, but the hopeless, lonely tone of the story gives the natural imagery a more melancholic feel.