Smoke and Mirrors

‘Smoke and Mirrors‘ holds works in which the original smoke picture has been mirrored on itself, to create symmetry and hence open up a whole new range of amazing imagery.

Gizmo
Smoke photography mirrored, revealing some cute alien creature sitting cross-legged on a chair.. or what do you see?

Gemini
the kissing twins.. smoke photography mirrored showing 2 girls, made me think of gemini. This picture was used on merchandise t-shirts for the US band Widespread Panic.

Ostrich
mirrored smoke photography, looks to me like an ostrich-like bird hear looking straight at the viewer.. or what do you see?

Sorcerer Teddy
mirrored smoke photography showing me a bear with a long robe, must be a sorcerer.. what do you think or see?

I heart you
Abstact mirrored smoke looking like a heart

Homage to Magritte
One of my favorites, amazing what smoke can show.. really made me think of belgian surrealist painter Magritte's work of a man in bowler hat, with an apple in front of his face (no apple here though)

Ganesha
One of the best known hindu deities is Ganesha, the god with the elephant head, here sitting cross-legged in yoga pose

Ikenga
Ikenga is a Nigerian deity, with horns, this smoke made me think of it

Psyche
mirrored smoke photography showing.. a butterfly? Psyche (greek for butterfly) was the princess that was Cupid's wife and got turned into a godess by Zeus. Or you might see Neptune, underwater, old man with moustache and beard, god of the seas.. or what do you see?

Queen of Hearts
mirrored and colored smoke photography showing a woman in read, with long blonde hair, her torso shaped like a heart.. what do you see?

Neptune
Neptune (Poseidon) Imposing god of the sea.. or what do you see in this smoke photography?

Batman or Transformer
mirrored and colored smoke photography that made me think both of Batman, and a transformer. Later another artist pointed out an owl to me.. what do you see?

Woman
One of the very early mirrored smoke pictures with a painterly and surreal quality reminding me somehow of how dali might paint a woman. What do you see?

Contrast
mirrored and colored smoke photography, what do you see?

x-chromosome
mirrored and colored smoke photography, what do you see?

Disco Ball
this mirorred smoke photography looks very 80's to me, very disco, with a singer with shades on... another artist saw something much more alien in this. what do you see?

Family of 3
one of the few smoke pictures where I cloned the smoke without symmetry, to create this beautiful family of 3.

Fierce Warrior
He looks quite mean to me.. but what do you see in this smoke photography?

DNA-
mirrored and colored smoke photography, what do you see?

Insect
abstract mirrored smoke photography, what do you see? this looks like an insect-style alien and the picture looks quite scary/haunthing.. but what do you see?

Mask or Torso
mirrored and colored smoke photography, what do you see?

Oakley ad
Smoke photography looking like an ad for futuristic Oakley shades? what do you see?

Piglet
mirrored smoke photography, what do you see

Product lighting 101
mirrored and colored smoke photography, the lighting on this 'bottle' looks almost textbook product lighting. Cheers!

Samurai Warrior
Smoke photography sure creates some fierce looking warriors what I wouldn't want to mess with. but what do you see?

Scary Smoke
One of my early scary monsters created from Smoke photography. Are those broad shoulders, or skulls at his side?

Schwarzenegger and his Bond girls
Smoke photography going to the movies.. this creatures head really has Schwarzenegger's expression and some artsy looking bond nudes accompanying him for the occasion.. what do you see?

Chewbakka
mirrored smoke photography, what do you see

Smoke Alien
mirrored smoke photography, what do you see

Smoke Creature with Antlers
mirrored smoke photography showing an angry pig face with antlers? what do you see?

Stardust Lady
smoke photography showing a mysterious beauty amidst the stars.. what do you see?

Tentacles
mirrored smoke photography, what do you see?

The General
mirrored smoke photography, what do you see?

The Warrior-Prophet
the title comes from a charachter, and title of the 2nd book in the series 'prince of nothing' by Scott Bakker. When I saw this smoke, shortly after reading the book, that is what I thought of! great books too! What do you see?

abstracted
mirrored smoke photography, what do you see?

Alien Boss
a boss of the alien guild.. what do you see in this mirrored and colored smoke photography?

Goat Man
mirrored smoke photography, what do you see?

Crab
the attentive people might recognize this shape from another of my pictures.. inverted both in color and position and cropped slightly different. Here it reminds of a crab.. what do you see?

Hypnosis - part 2
abstract mirrored and colored smoke photography, what do you see?

Hypnosis - part 3
abstract mirrored and colored smoke photography, what do you see?

caleidoscope
abstract mirrored and colored smoke photography, what do you see?

Horned
this mirrored smoke shows a simplistic grumpy alien with a long nose and big ears.. or what do you see?

Blazing
abstract mirrored and colored smoke photography, what do you see?

claws of fire-
abstract mirrored smoke photography, what do you see?

Boo!
casper the friendly smoke ghost? what do you see?

cold heart
a heart, or some red-headed alien? what do you see in this mirrored smoke?

definitely 80s
abstract mirrored and colored smoke photography, what do you see?

i give thee this heart
A mayan priest offering a heart to the gods, with 2 female acolytes at his side.. what do you see in this smoke?

in vitro - extra terra
if you look carefully at the center of the recipient, you can see the alien foetus.. or can you? what do you see?

interpretations
this picture shows you the original smoke picture on the left, with the incense stick, and on the right you can see some different final pictures I came up with from this one picture by mirroring.. creating totally new shapes, each intruguing

tribal-

trigger happy & winged-

trigger happy2

up and down

warrior-king

ytbn

Making of Homage to Magritte