Collage

Ok, I really liked the collage concept, I never used this method of creation before & I think it's quite interresting, for 2 main reasons:

1- It gives access to high quality pictures symbols
2- It brings the whole issue about copyrights & other people work's reapropriation.

Lets go directly to the works done in class

This is my Self-portrait, the television/technology represents well myself aswell as my generation. I used a lot of repetition in this work (BUY!, a big tv & a small one, 2 motions colling together, the "scrabble" like words), because the television is all about repetition: Publicity, similar shows often rebrroadcasted, news all the same on different channels.

The next one is my 32 greater than 12. I did this piece with a scientific & numerical concept in mind, by sometimes agreeing with sometimes not ( like my 0=1 ).

The last work done in class is my Monkey piece, my personal favorite. I simply took an article about darwin's theory of evolution, cut it into multiple pieces & rearanged them in a different way, with text upside down.

All the other works were done at home, here is the last one of the 1st serie "I want to fly". I seems quite empty, but that is what i wanted to represent, the lonelyness of the picture far away from healing (represented by a cross symbol).

Now, lets move to the emotional collages, the following is happyness. I tried to represent the girls desire throught drawing symbols of happyness, i noticed curves are often used to represent in a certain way happyness. But in this collage, hapyness is not necesseraly reached, its more somthing to person craves for. I scaned in black & white since i thought make the picture fit better with the rest of the montage.

Angry Collage. I mainly tried to represent the possible consequences of angryness, in this case violence, with the Nuclear Bomb, blood, Manson, explosions, etc. There are lots of cliche, I don't think it's really interresting.

Finally, that is the "hungry" piece. I like it's simplicity, 2 items a predator & a prey. Isn't what it is all about when we talk of hunger. Life eats life, herbivores plants, carnivores eat herbivores/carnivores. Also, the 2 images are so detailed that they speak for themselves.