Proposal - Perception of Space, Manipulated through Photography

For project one (Space), I am going play on the way we perceive space and how I can use the camera as a tool to manipulate the way to interpret the subject.
I am going to look a range of artists, focusing on the work of surrealists painters. 
Surrealism is the attempt to capture glimpses into the unconscious mind. 
Their work is best suited to the ideas I am trying to portray as it bears the same relationship to painting as this concept is to photography.  

"Surrealism as a visual movement had found a method: to expose psychological truth by stripping ordinary objects (spaces) of their normal significance, in order to create a compelling image that was beyond ordinary formal organization, in order to evoke empathy from the viewer."

Often the artists such as Salvador Dali, would look at specific objects such as the iconic melting clock, but I am focusing on the overall spacial qualities characterised by the surrealists; dreamlike sceneries, startling contrasts of surreal spectrums of colours and incongruous juxtapositions of space.
I am going to use the camera not to capture a moment in time but in a way that manipulates the way we perceive it through a range of manipulative experiments.


My chosen site is the Waterfront Lagoon as it contains a diverse range of spatial qualities that can be manipulated to bring forth certain qualities.