http://sites.stedwards.edu/searle/2015/11/04/visu1311-project-2_shannon-earle/

Collage 1 – “Earth” Alex Pesina

I hand made this collage. It is made from multiple photos of grass and concrete. I also decided to incorporate real grass because I wanted to give the whole work an organic feel.

Collage 2 – “Pink” Alex Pesina

This is another hand made collage. I cut out the patch of grass from the original photo and then filled in the space with cut outs from two other photos. To draw the eye to the pink flowers I added the pink paper to make the collage atmosphere more whole.

Collage 3 – “Blue” Alex Pesina

I created this collage through Photoshop. I added in the tree with the pink flowers and the blue rocks to the original image. The circles are then cut outs of the blue and pink together.

Collage 4 – “Green” Alex Pesina

This is another Photoshop image. I layered the same image over and over in different directions to create a disrupted image.

Collage 5 – “Girl-E” Alex Pesina

This is another hand made collage. I enjoyed putting together a very nice image of pink flowers with the grimy look of half smoked cigarettes.

Screenshots

http://sites.stedwards.edu/vcavazo2/2015/11/02/visu1311-project-2-collage/

Harmony:

I used black and white images to focus more on shape rather than color. Cutting up and pasting images together was my main influence on my collages. The difficult part for me was to figure out what idea to go with. There’s so much to do with this project but I went with a more graphic design path but using shapes and precision in my images. The last two images were fun. I wanted to see if I could blend two images together to make it look like one. 

Collages

From the beginning of this project I was infatuated with the idea of a building block, and this idea relates back to my theme in the Gestalt project. Nature has it’s very complex and unique set of building blocks that differ from man’s constructs. Even though man is a product of nature, his constructions are not as intricate or complex as nature. I demonstrated this idea by using fractals to form natural constructs. I scanned rocks and plants I found on S Congress, put them into a pattern, and produced a figure that resembles something in nature– collage 1 being a tree (scanned plants) and collage 2 being a mountain (scanned rocks).

Practice

Process

Harmony: Layering and Building Meaning

My digital collage experience was a lot more challenging than the actual paper cut and paste collage. My first thought on cut and paste collages was geometric shapes, which I incorporated to most collages when I could, it challenged and limited myself on how they could all be pieced together including how colors went well with one another. The digital collages were a lot harder, I don’t have a lot of practice on photoshop so the process took me a lot longer per picture. If I was given more time I think I could do a bit more with the digital collages.

My experience on this project was good, I liked the idea of limiting one place for pictures. S.Congress is a very busy place and things are constantly changing. I went out a couple of times to capture things that I’ve never seen before and found that there is a lot to see. I enjoyed this project, it gave us limits, but at the same time we were free to capture what we wanted.

ScreenShots:

Fr. Nguyen, a priest of the Congregation of the Holy Cross, was born in the country, Vietnam, and moved to the United States in the very late 1970s. In 1995, he was admitted into the Department of Art, Art History, and Design at the University of Norte Dame. His current piece “Drawing/Painting TIME ” captures the portraits of a plethora of people, dismissing any specific demographic.

My first impression of the work is that each portrait seems carefully detailed and painted in a way that seems very warm and amiable. The artwork seems like a documentation of human life.

My eyes are drawn to how the portraits were placed together. They were very organized and charted very well. Vertical and Horizontal lines. They are sized consistently throughout the piece.

The artist seems to be trying to relate people to each other. Documenting that each person, no matter the circumstances, is subject to change, growth, and decay, but also each person experiences this phenomenon differently.

I feel that this representation of human life feels a bit too mundane for my taste, but yet again I am a design major, which may contribute to my taste. The uniformity throws me off.