The Subconscious Painting, a digital photo collage of the paint from Jina’s palette, is included in an online exhibition from The Dalí Museum. The image has a concept that explores the conscious and unconscious aspects of the painting process. 

Jina wrote:

I look at my plastic palette, peel off the dry paint, and scrunch it into a ball. I photographed many of them. Their colors relate to the painting that’s been created, but their structure and abstract forms aren’t sculpted by intention. They remind me that painting is a conscious and subconscious process. The original painting contained this, but it also acted as a distraction. The aftermath on the palette becomes more subconscious because I’m making no attempts to consider the outcome. I look at the dry paint, and it feels like another starting point in the endless cycle of creativity. I took one photo for this image and then used it to create a digital photo collage. I incorporated repetition and other techniques to bring conscious creation to an image with firm roots in an unconscious process. Through an alteration of the aesthetics, I want the viewer to understand why I find these clumps of dry paint so fascinating.

To view The Dalí Museum’s Surprisingly Surreal Photo Contest online exhibit, visit https://thedali.org/exhibit/the-dalis-surprisingly-surreal-photo-contest-online-exhibit/