A selfie with Goya

Today I woke up when it was not yet dawn. Last night I was busy with my collage. The photo that @shaka gave us this time (beautiful, as always) put the fairy tale title in my head; however, for some reason I couldn't get this idea to fit graphically, and I knew I wasn't really convinced. With so few hours to close, I felt the pressure, but I put the matter to rest. It's something I've learned: sometimes it's more productive to step away for a while. I went to sleep.
At three in the morning I woke up with the image of a drawing I did some time ago to illustrate one of my stories, "El doblado". That image tugged at another more powerful one, "The Giant," Francisco de Goya's engraving.
I want to apologize for the arrogance implicit in the fact of putting my clumsy drawing next to the Master's work (it embarrasses me a little, but it amuses me more, so...).
Somehow, collage allows us to achieve the impossible.

I want to leave @shaka's beautiful photograph here, untouched, because it's worth reveling in without intrusion.

A collage for What if...?

I'm almost certain that my collage deals with the theme of imagination. More precisely, the construction of fictional worlds, which is not the same thing. You see, in Fiction Theory, it is argued (and I fully agree) that fictional worlds are salient structures that we construct by applying referential schemas from a primary reality. Superman can fly. This characteristic has been extracted from the primary reality, the real reality, and has been applied to a being that in our primary reality does not possess it. This task can become very complex and we can build worlds that verisimilarly sustain the illusion of being complete (and their procedures are very complicated too, much more than in my crude example).

A collage is...

A collage builds a very rich micro-world, which attracts with extraordinary force the load of the elements that it places in its context. The collage is also a crucible where realities are transmuted. And it is a space where desires are fulfilled. Where an amateur can be an artist next to Goya and laugh about it.

Links
Sea
https://www.piqsels.com/es/public-domain-photo-fnvlv

Giant

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_coloso#/media/Archivo:Coloso_de_Goya_(estampa)_cropped.jpg
Sky
https://www.piqsels.com/es/public-domain-photo-iraub

El Doblado
https://steemit.com/equipocardumen/@adncabrera/el-doblado-un-cuento-ilustrado-periplos-revista-de-arte-y-literatura-n-2