Magical realism has become an extremely important part of my series. I have turned the light from being a character to becoming more of precious, magical item while still mixing it with every day life. I am trying to have my figures dressed in every day clothing to give a clear dating to the images, yet I keep the locations in places that are much more ambiguous. Reading about magical realism in literature as well as in art, helps to give me ideas on how to go about this process. I want to create images that could easily be seen on a every day basis, yet I want to change one detail about it (the light, and the subjects interactions with it) in order to throw off the viewer.
“Magic realism is the opposite of the "once-upon-a-time" style of story-telling in which the author emphasizes the fantastic quality of imaginary events. In the world of magic realism, the narrator speaks of the surreal so naturally it becomes real.” -B.J Geetha
“…the supernatural is presented as mundane, and the mundane as supernatural or extraordinary.” – B.J Geetha
Geetha, B.J. "Magic Realism in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude." Periyar University. Web. 13 Oct. 2010
This article was extremely effective in clearly describing magical realism as a literary and artistic genre. The article also acts as an analysis of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s story “One Hundred Years of Solitude.” The author describes how Marquez uses the elements of the story to make the reader question real life political events occurring in Columbia. He then goes on to describe the main events in the storyline that deal with loneliness a person deals with, whether voluntary or forced. The article mostly helped though, to give examples of magical realism through analyzing the storyline.
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