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.

Artist Jason Morgan works on a mural named "Heritage Harvesters" as commissioned by a building owner to depict farmers from the community, Thursday, June 11, 2015, in Wilmington, Ohio. Locals were asked to send photographs of their ancestors who lived in the Wilmington area to adorn the edifice that sits along the town's main drag. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)