This is how I feel when I wake up

This is from a series by Rik Garrett, a Chicago-based artist with a "strange romantic" and heavy occult-related aspect to his art. These photographs (above and below) are from a series called Symbiosis, a book/series of photographs that emphasize the ideas of love, alchemy, and partnership in nature.These images are painted on with acrylic paint, which is something I would have never thought would look as interesting as this.

Garrett refers to these two beings (a male and a female) merged as a symbolic and visually perfect being. These images remind me of the story that Aristophanes told in Plato's The Symposium that describes how man and woman were once joined as one. This angered the gods, who split them and put them back together as two separate beings. They were long depressed and searched for their other piece of their souls, soulmates.