The Worlds of Catherine Nelson

Via Colossal, the work of Catherine Nelson, an Australian artist who digitally  manipulates hundreds or thousands of photographs to create new "worlds." Her completed works are huge -- each piece is about a meter on a side -- and (from what I can see through the magic of the internet) gorgeous.

Nelson's work is a response to the fact that single photographs are limited by the frame of the shot. She blends photographs, creating a sort of 360° image but in the round -- a fictional world.  She describes her work as painterly, yet I think her work is much more like a visual poem than a painting.

The post at Colossal has better images of her work (though fewer) than her site.  Here are some I've shamelessly borrowed from there: