I recognized a common theme of objects I was taking photographs of in our last project and when creating our practice collages. However, after I decided to look deeper into what I was creating and capturing, it lead me to the conclusion that a majority of my works demonstrated the coexistence of living and non-living things. I decided to take this idea and incorporate it into my collages by using my photographs and scans of living and non-living things. I created collages that reconstructed my scans and images in such a way that they work together to either create a living or non-living scene. They create a harmonious collage by combining texture and shape in order to create a “bigger picture”.
Final Collages
In my first final collage I used my scans of trash and my photographs of plants to create the living scene of a flower on a hill. I used a newspaper I found on South Congress as the background, which I scanned in motion in order to give it a “living” effect.
In my second final collage I decided to reconstruct my image of the leaves with the cup and the of the newspaper on the ground in order to create the shape of mountains by cutting and pasting triangle shapes. Then I tore the newspaper I found into cloud shapes wherever I could find an address that included South Congress street. Both of these processes created the non-living mountain scene shown in this collage.
Practice Collages
