I have followed the lead of many artists (eg Amanda Marburg) and constructed my own still life sets/dioramas from plasticine and other objects. Red plasticine was used to create models for an old op shop wing back arm chair. The remainder of the sets were based on Penguin travel books and drift wood sculptures of ruins of the silk road. The resulting images (see below) were photoshopped and then treated with filters from the new iPhoto application.