Stephanie Niu created two versions of a digital art project attempting to recreate a dream landscape. Version 1 used imagery like a flag, Viking ship, and ruins to represent a lost civilization. Version 2 took a more abstract, impressionist approach using strong colors and torn paper to depict two parallel worlds. Niu's artist statements explained the themes of past, transition, and parallel worlds in her works.

1. My Sample Projects
Digital Arts
Stephanie Yinchen Niu

4. Artist Statement
Version 1
For the first version of this assignment, my attempt was to recreate an image
that is very much like what once had occurred in my dream. The dream
image consists of a vast and wide landscape/horizon, mimicking that of a
planet’s surface where my friends and I landed on it in my dream; the fog
in the dream was mimicked by the foggy effect on the background, which
represents uncertainty. The white flag, the Viking ship and Dorian temple
ruin and the spaceship were there to create a sense of lost civilization and
unfinished journey/mission. The theme has more to do with past and
personal transition to present & future.

5. Artist Statement
Version 2
Using a much more abstract form of presenting the image, I used paintbrush
for this one to imitate the classic paintings by the impressionism works in
the past. I used strong colors with large brushes for the ocean and added
the sun on horizon. To add some creative elements, I used the torn paper
effect to make it look like a human child in real world is peeking right into
the image world, creating a sense of two parallel worlds coexisting with
each other.

6. Bibliography
“Road to the mountains” (Flickr.com). 09/17/2012.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicholasjones/7756093686/
“IMG_1507” (Flickr.com). 09/17/2012. http://www.flickr.com/photos/paleontour/2485598400/
“Viking ship out to sea” (Flickr.com). 09/182012.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jmv/1281973148/in/photostream
“Palmyra, Syria” (Flickr.com). 09/19/2012.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/james_gordon_losangeles/7436033890/
“War horse” (Flickr.com). 09/18/2012. http://www.flickr.com/photos/72213316@N00/6837726944/
“2009 Lenoid Meteor” (Flickr.com). 09/18/2012.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/edsweeney/4111291263/
“paper hole” (Flickr.com). 09/24/2012. http://www.flickr.com/photos/yaxzone/6795971837/
“Curious Girl (unedited)” (Flickr.com). 09/24/2012.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinksherbet/3339184825/
“Ocean” (Flickr.com). 09/24/2012. http://www.flickr.com/photos/cubagallery/7690090178/

7. Dreamweaver Narrative Website
http://mypage.iu.edu/~niuy/_home.html
Three Stories, with connected central themes

8. Dreamweaver Narrative Website sample screenshot: