Peer Gynt Collage Revision

Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt is a dramatic poem spanning the life of Norwegian folk hero of the same name. Epic in scale, Peer travels from nineteenth century Norway, to the kingdom of the trolls, to Egypt, and back again. I've tried to capture the dynamics of Peer's journey by combining the elements of land and sea in this image. In his youth Peer spends most of his time impishly sneaking around through the forest but in his adulthood he's forced to flee his home and travels, for a time, over the water. I've taken a dark image of a forest and replaced what would be the underbrush with tossing ocean waves to illustrate both these important periods in Peer's life. I've also laced a piece of a map of Norway between the trees in the background to emphasize the scale of Peer's journeys.
My favorite part about this epic drama is Ibsen's use of fantastical elements. Most people when they think of Ibsen focus on his more realistic works (A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, etc.) but this play defies all of those stereotypes. I've highlighted a pair of trees in this forest image to represent the other-worldly qualities of the play. I wanted the trees to glow green to give them a slightly spooky effect.
I've chosen to show three different people in this image to mirror three of the most important characters in the play. From right to left they are: Peer Gynt, his wife Solveig, and the mysterious Button Molder. The Button Molder is essentially the Norse equivalent of the grim reaper. Peer meets him at the end of his journey and he threatens to take his life. In this image, I've modified a picture of Ozzy Osborne (because who better to cast as the Grim Reaper) and I've placed him in the back of the image. The Button Molder is another fantastical element of the play, and as such I've made him mostly transparent so that he seems like a floating spectral image. The picture in the middle is one I took of one of my best friends Emily. In the play, Peer Gynt leaves his bride Solveig almost immediately after their marriage and she spends the rest of the play looking out and waiting for his return. The picture of Emily I've used was taken at sunset, just like the many sunsets that Solveig sat through waiting for Peer and she is looking out into the distance, as if she is waiting for Peer's return.The picture in the foreground of this image is of another of my best friends Will. I've placed this as the foremost image so that it seems like Peer is continuing his epic journey, leaving everything else in the background. In this picture of Will he is covered in paint and shirtless. I thought this would be a good picture to use of him because his appearance in this picture conveys the wildness of Peer throughout most of the play.

Sources;
Background Trees: here
Foreground Ocean: here
Norse Map: here
Shadowy Figure: here
The other two images I took myself.