Something Extraordinary

"The magician… takes the ordinary something and makes it into something extraordinary."

– The Prestige (2006)

A portrait on display at my cinema-inspired solo show MOMENTS, which opened June 7th at NYC's Bottleneck Gallery. (It was last Friday! The rain was TORRENTIAL, but thank you to everyone who braved the tropical storm and showed up anyway!)

This was inspired by Tesla's lightbulbs in Nolan's The Prestige. Not a big or important scene but somehow I remembered it the most - it was just an ethereal moment. Painted with a Cintiq 21UX tablet in Adobe Photoshop. Reference: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pX-p7… Used a texture from Sirius-sdz
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Artwork by Alice X. Zhang
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