The collection of these images started with me picking and choosing images online and out of my personal collection that stood out to me. They stood out because they caught my eye with familiarity. All of the individual images either remind me of some experience, are a part of my past, or strike an emotion that triggered me wanting to put them together. I like the idea of separating dreams from reality, yet keeping them related at a distance. I think when a human is dreaming that is when they are at their most peaceful state of mind. Reality is stressful and chaotic and overwhelming, and I tried to relay those messages through the ways of placing such random objects all over. I chose to keep certain aspects in grayscale to separate not what was a "dream" from "reality", but rather to make the viewer think about what in these pictures reminds them of dreams or reality and how do youseparate the two different realms. To me, it's different in each collage. I chose to do my third collage in all black and white except for the stop sign because I think that makes the statement I was trying to express "stop the bullshit" and just live. I like the word 'escape' because I think it is more of a movement and an action than just a word. To escape the stresses and pressures of the day takes a lot and I think it is a word that people need to act on more. "free your mind" stand for that same notion for me... just let go.
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I really like your work, I think it's definitely visually interesting. I do however think the "stop the bullshit" is a little confusing. Your composition encompasses a lot of non-bullshit things so when you put the "stop the bullshit" sign on top of it, it seems like your referring to the rest of the items in your montage as the bullshit that needs to be stopped.
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ReplyDeleteGreat work although you stop just past half-way - the third image is the first one reduced to grey scale? This is less than effective! Your first image is really strong - it would have been great to see you take the other two in as strong a direction but focusing the time on each to further evolve your images. The second one has a much less finished quality to it than the first. Be sure you give yourself more time to fully complete these assignments.
The use of selective color in these triptych is chaotic and the grays fade into the background much more than they should. In terms of text, you used a lot of text and they create a different context than if the words weren't there. You are expecting the viewer to be able to understand your language which is interesting because we sometimes forget the amount of words we use and that there are people out there who may not speak or understand the languages we speak.
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