VISU1311 Project #2 Amy Tondre

This project was definitely a lot harder for me compared to the last project. I had a hard time creating images that I found interesting or satisfied with. This was mostly a learning experience for me and it challenged me to go outside of my comfort zone. I did not go out and shoot more for this project and I am glad I didn’t. I had plenty of left over images from the last project that I was able to use.The one aspect I was drawn to on S. Congress was the buildings and the architecture so I had a more narrow focus on creating new locations in my collages. As you can tell, my final two collages and my formal exercises are nowhere near similar and they really don’t show an evolution into the two images I decided to have critiqued. My formal exercises were based off of the idea I had that I wanted to cut shapes out of my images in the shape of water or liquid and then place an image beneath those cuts to act as the water or liquid. I did all of these collages digitally and originally wanted to only create digital collages, but I found that I didn’t find those images compelling enough and flat, so for my final two I combined both digital and physical collage. Both images went through a process of trial and error. At first both were completely digital, but as I realized that my images were not interesting and I was unhappy with them I began cutting them up and gluing pieces to create a more 3-D effect. In the first image I cut the shape out of the white paper and then used the left overs as the two triangles pointing towards the middle. I did this to create a sense of movement. I then taped the metallic wrapper behind the cut opening to give it a futuristic aesthetic to it that I was trying to achieve. The second collage went through a similar process; I cut off the white border and then cut shapes out of the image and then glued them back onto the image. My main focus for this image was continuing with that futuristic aesthetic and creating a more structured object. I liked playing with the negative space and closure to create a more engaging image. Overall my project was a total work in progress from start to finish. I did a lot of revising and redoing to create images that I personally found interesting and adequate. I learned a lot about how my artistic process works and how I create images.

Final Collages