31-year-old Alejandro Maestre Gasteazi has created an incredibly interesting photographic series about the struggle of an artist. First, though, you may be asking yourself these questions: Exactly, what are we looking at? How did the photographer achieve this strange, sculpture-like illusion?

Gasteazi asked his friend Julián to cover himself with a mixture of blue paint and mud. He then photographed Julián at various stages. Later, in Photoshop, Gasteazi cut around his subject's body to make him appear like a floating sculpture.

A man poses for a pictures, as he transport logs on his bull-cart to make charcoal at La Campanera village, Nicaragua, May 22, 2015. Around 300 families live off the sale of charcoal in this area located in the dry corridor of Nicaragua. Friday marks World Environment Day. Picture taken May 22, 2015. REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas