Title: The Suspense
Artist: Oana Bechir
Country: Romania
Oana Bechir is a self-taught graphic designer who loves to create and use her skills to help others. She has extensive experience working with various brands specializing in graphic design.
She started her academic journey by obtaining a degree in Industrial Design at Transilvania University in Brasov, and during her academic travels, she had the opportunity to improve her 3D design skills at Plymouth University in the UK through the Erasmus programme.
Author’s Vision:
As its name suggests, “The Suspense” captures the blend of concern and curiosity that arises when you eagerly await something uncertain about what will happen next.
A quiet street with an ominously parked car outside and a room filled with mysterious objects that raise countless questions. A knife lies in the trash, its purpose concealed in secrecy. Who lurks in the shadows? The answers remain unknown.
Inspired by the timeless 1963 classic film ‘A Girl Who Knew Too Much,’ this project revives the same atmosphere of intrigue and suspense, offering a fresh and immersive artistic experience six decades later.
These renders were created using the 3D software Blender, with final scenes edited in Adobe Photoshop.
It’s very nice how a few photos, shot in some sort of style, summons a certain genre of films, which is the suspense in this case. When you look at these photos, even without any description, you can easily figure out some sort of a story or maybe stories. A crime is going to happen here and now. We can see the crime scene, the killer, a victim, maybe the tool. But, as in many good suspense films, you can’t collect all the threads at once, so we can’t tell here if the woman who holds the knife is the killer or she is defending herself. Is the woman who arrived at the house the house owner and the killer waiting for her inside or is it the other way around? No one can deny the effect and the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock on this genre, thus looking into the last photo reminds us immediately of one or more of his films, it was Psycho in my case. Besides, this use of black and white also gave me the feeling of the noir films. I watched many of the neo-noir films, but I still have more feelings toward the original noir films, this beautiful spectrum of black and white, the artistic use of the shadows, and the effect of the lighting on the different characters. There’s always more to see in these films. – Andrew Mohsen, curator