Bored Panda reached out to the artist, who shared more about his artwork. First of all, Jati wrote what inspired him to start creating surreal landscapes.“So the very first time that triggered me to create surreal landscape artworks was back in 2015, the one and only Christopher Nolan’s movie Inception inspired me to create them.”

Jati also explained how he manages to create such images.

“My basic style before I did the surreal landscape styles artwork was collage art, to assemble pieces of different images to be one artwork, and then the ideas to create surreal landscapes with the same basic technique, to crop the 'object' which is the land, or the sea, from the background, and then bend them, and put it back together to the background and do a little magic for finishing to make it more realistic and clean just like a photograph looks,” wrote Jati.

We were curious about what are some of the hardest parts of editing these photos to look surreal.

Jati shared: “The hardest part is actually not from the editing part, but to find the images that fit with my ideas. Because first of all, to make them, I have to think of something and then go looking for the images that are quite exactly the same as my ideas. After I found the right one, the rest is the easiest part.”

We asked Jati what he would like for people to take away from his art.

“Back in 2015-2016 when my artworks went viral, a lot of people reached out to me, they were amazed with my artwork. What amazed me was that there was one person who emailed me that he created an editing app for mobile, to create an image that blends just like my style, he told me that my artworks inspired him to create that mobile app,” replied Jati.

And lastly, Jati commented on new themes or projects he wants to explore in the future.

“I’m currently exploring AI, even though it’s quite amazing how it works, I still believe that nothing replaces a manual process. I tried also to create an artwork using AI, I posted a few of them. Quite interesting, but I don’t think I will go full with that AI stuff, and keep to my style for now and in the future.”