collage project

 

Collage Project Reflective Essay

Constructing these two collages had its ups and downs. In the beginning I had the theme of marriage in my head so I found symbols relating to that subject. I used two goats with their noses touching, rope tied in knots encompassing the two goats, and the famous sculpture of an orator. I also used a picture I took of a sidewalk with trees in Jacksonville that looks like an aisle. I originally wanted to put in other symbols, but I found that to be a challenge with the vertical orientation of the collage. It seemed like less was more. I thought it would be easy to execute my idea but it wasn’t.

I did not really have a clear plan in mind when I sat down to make the second collage. I knew I wanted to continue to have a natural background and work with images of animals. The second collage was more comical and fun because I put different types of animals in a setting where they don’t belong. I just chose images I found to be funny or aesthetically pleasing due to their color or character. It didn’t matter so much that it made sense. I found it easier to include more images with the horizontal orientation, but I still appreciated using fewer pictures.

There were stages when the collages were unsettling. At some points, they just got overcrowded and I had to take a few images out or make them smaller. I found the lasso tool to be very useful, but following up with the eraser tool got old. It was hard for me to get really close to the image without going too far. Overall, it was a fun project and it would be cool to do one on a larger scale.