The model was quite relaxed, so the phantasm above her is paradoxical. As in some of my other surreal takes in her dream her lower body has become like an insect's torso and it hints of a kind of monstrous pregnancy accentuated by the horizontal slit reminiscent of a marsupial's pouch. The upper body is a fascinating anatomical anomaly. Twins with one breast each casually embrace a purple gargoyle. He is he their master, a cruel pet? And what blob of protoplasm lurks beneath her platform? About the Artist Hirsh is a practicing biophysicist, but he has also developed as a mathematical artist. He has developed a unique scheme for mathematical manipulation of color and space using software he writes himself exclusively. It has been fully operational for several years, allowing him to create a wide array of representational, impressionist, surreal and abstract images by manipulating digital images, initially always photographs, purely through the use of mathematics. One of the specialties that has emerged from his artistic odyssey is surreal exploration of the nude female form. more »