Project 1: Utopia Collage |
Project 2: Composition Techniques |
To me utopia always has a connotation of unobtainable. Instead I prefer to view it as a receding goal-line that we always strive to be better. One of the ways I would improve the world would be to add a level of transparency to our very rigid society. Some of the most prejudice people are that way because of Ignorance. If everyone and everything were more transparent, knowing would become less exclusive and more inclusive. In this unit I practiced the rule of thirds, compositionally, keeping my color, shape, space, and texture all very intentional. I glued my lowest layers on first to fill all the white within my boarders before depicting the main cube. I intentionally left the pencil lines I used to create my 2 inch boarder because I felt they made the boarder attached to this piece in a way a blank border could not. It creates similar sized shapes top & bottom, left & right, which adds to the rigidity I intended to convey. I believe the strongest part of my work was my use of space, while my colors still looked a lot like the magazines I took them from. Next time I might try more of a mosaic style with my background, using square and rectangle shaped pieces to continue to convey that rigidity.
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Project 3: Exquisite CorpseI learned how to create a triptych and what angles do and don't help in accomplishing this goal. It is especially important to imagine the shapes of the corpse's body as they continue from one photo to the next. I feel the strongest part of this work is the use of framing. In the left triptych the pictures are getting larger top to bottom, but the person is still continuous. In the right triptych, the pictures are overlapping which shows distinction between each one while still creating unison of the whole person. In my next triptych I will take more pictures of the subject's midsection and focus more on being intentional with the mid-section's background.
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