A little background first: "tilt shift" is a photoshoppy technique where an ordinary photo of something wide in range, such as a landscape, is converted into what looks like a model. Aw hell,
this page explains it better than I can, and has examples.
So, Serena Malyon came up with the idea of performing tilt-shift manipulations on iconic Van Gogh paintings.
This is the fine art version of remix artists and DJs taking old, familiar songs and turning them into something new, in a way that maintains artistic integrity.
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