Going down South Congress for this project felt a bit different then usual. Before I was looking for shots that could fit within my theme or followed Gestalt. This time however, I was looking for a certain kind of object. Stickers.

As you’ll see below, most of my object for this first set of collages were stickers, along with a few business cards, a baseball card and a mint. I’m sure people were giving me weird look as I would run up to a stop sign pole or crosswalk pole and peel off stickers, but then again I wasn’t paying attention to them. My main focus was trying to find interesting looking stickers.

The  five images below will show you the stickers and other object I found before cutting them. I had 33 objects in all. A decent amount, but I’m definitely getting more next time. For this first session, I only made two collages but had around 40 cut objects. My two collages look bizarre, and that’s something I like. I decided to make whatever I could out of the stickers and the end result is what I came up with. After going down SoCo so many times (for class or on my own time) I really started to become fascinated by all the stickers that are plastered all over.

In my first collage, I tried to make a place resembling a hang out spot. Looking at it, it reminds me of the cantina scene from the original Star Wars, all sorts of creatures and beings all in one common area. In my collage you can a dog-man hybrid, a two-headed being and even a drooling dinosaur. I find it funny how in the middle of all of this, the two normal looking men are just sitting back having a smoke and playing cards. It was nice building a little world. This first one is definitely my favorite of the bunch.

While my second collage seems a bit barren, thats intentional. There are four forces going against each other in this composition. Each has their own word and they all clash in the middle. While I was making this one, I was tempted to use some materials from a newspaper comic page or magazine I had to add more, but liked the simplicity of it. There isn’t anything distracting in the corners of the collage. Your eyes are drawn to any one of the four beings and their word.

I really cannot wait for the next few collages. I had a lot of fun making these first two and can’t wait to make more.