Artist creates disturbing compositions online- including a football made from human skin

An artist has revealed how she creates disturbing and thought-provoking compositions online to spark important conversations.  

Lea Brisell, from Copenhagen, told FEMAIL she creates the works of art on Photoshop to ‘make people feel something’, and said each can take several days to make. 

Some of the 34-year-old’s most controversial pieces include a football made from human skin in honour of the migrant workers in Qatar and a blood soaked tampon shaped like a Tulip.

The mother-of-two described most of her compositions as ‘eye-catching, confusing and slightly disturbing. ‘

Artist Lea Brisell, from Copenhagen, has created disturbing and thought-provoking compositions online to spark important conversations (donut print niqab composition)

‘If it’s not thought provoking – I personally don’t think it works. It doesn’t have to be political – but it should the very least make you feel something.’

Lea said she creates her works of art using Photoshop and they could take anything from one hour to two days to create.       

She said: ‘The overall creative method is finding two objects that have similar traits or exact opposite traits.

‘Like shape, texture, etc. And then combining the two in photoshop.

Lea admitted that she creates the works of art to ‘make people feel something’, including this human tongue on rice presented like sushi 

The 34-year-old’s most controversial piece is a football made from human skin in honour of the migrant workers who passed away while building the World Cup stadium in Qatar

‘I often choose objects that are easy and quick to decode – and then add an unexpected element.’

‘It really depends on the amount of detail required and how many people I need involved to shoot what I need. 

‘It can take everything from an hour to up to two days.’

The art director revealed her favourite compositions are The Tulip Tampon, The Real Like and The World Cup.   

Speaking about The World Cup composition she said she felt ‘almost obligated to make it.’

She said: ‘I’ve shared this image to a few newspapers and most of them replied that the image is ‘too disturbing’. 

The art director revealed one of her favourite compositions is the Tulip tampon as she felt piece had the ability to ‘push peoples boundaries’

One of her original pieces called The real Like shows a bloody heart on the like symbol for social media

‘I think it’s way more disturbing that 6500 real people with families and children have lost their lives to the creation of a football celebration – and we all seem to be perfectly willing to forget what actually happened.

‘So in the spirit of out of sight out of mind I wanted to reintroduce the disturbing truth and made it impossible to ignore.’

Speaking about the Tulip tampon piece she said: ‘This one really stirred some sh**- and I definitely lost a lot of followers when it was posted.

‘In a time where women are pushing to normalise conversations about periods with all that entails I believed this composition had the ability would push peoples boundaries – in a way that most people would actually enjoy. Not everyone though.’

Another interesting, yet disturbing, composition is this heart which is also a Christmas tree decoration 

Another quirky picture is a sandpaper roll on a toilet roll holder revealing the juxtaposition of strongly dissimilar elements

Another strange looking picture is the ‘hambag’ which shows a designer Gucci bag made out of meat

This picture shows a disturbing meat manicure and it definitely makes you second glance at the artwork

One of her original pieces called The Real Like shows a bloody heart on the like symbol for social media.

Explaining the piece she said: ‘A lot of people connect too deeply with the responses they get on their social media accounts. Often from people they don’t even know.

‘But for some reason this judgement from complete strangers has the power to absolutely break our hearts.’

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