Sara Shakeel
"A dentist by profession, i make art for my soul sake, it healed me and believed it could heal others too, with time i have realized, it kind of does. being a collage artist, i make art out of art especially flowers and crystals. oddly i believe they heal me in extraordinary ways."
Collage artist Sara Shakeel has become known for her spectacular images, where she often superimposes different photos together to create beautiful alternate realities.
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Sara taught herself how to use Photoshop after failing her last year of dental school, and from her "sadness and depression," she used her collages as a way of healing herself.
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Recently she's used her artistic abilities to transform stretch marks in a powerful series where she added images of gold glitter, a blue galaxy, and shiny crystal to photos of actual stretch marks. The goal for these images was to really bring cellulite, stretch marks, and body empowerment into the limelight.
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"I still remember that feeling of making those glitter stretch marks, and I was quite scared of uploading it," she says. "I am a Pakistani-based artist and talking about stretch marks or even making art out of it is not something you talk about on a regular basis."