My collage’s theme is based on the concept of living one’s life constantly racing against/being bound to time. This summer I am taking four classes along with a 150 hour internship. Therefore, I rarely have time to do things with my friends, go on vacation with my family, and most of my weekends are consumed with taking online tests, writing papers, or studying for my upcoming GRE exam. The clocks in the collage represent almost an entrapment for all the things that I wish I had the time for. The things inside the clocks, like flowers, friends, delicious desserts, are all things that I feel as though I don’t even have a moment to spare for. My life these past few weeks has been moving a million miles an hour, no time to stop and enjoy the countless blessings that each passing summer month brings. I chose to put things inside the clocks such as flowers, friends, family, and desserts because they are all representative of things that I love and things that, given the opportunity, I would choose to spend my free time with. The words up at the top corner represent things that remind of happiness and relaxation such as: ‘relax on the lake’, ‘retreat to the beach’, and ‘ice cream’. You’ll notice that the words at the bottom center of the collage are all dark and rather somber. These words, unfortunately, represent more of an accurate picture of how I feel at times, simply overwhelmed with work and the stress of school. The staircase, starting out dark and then getting lighter, represents the road that I see my summer taking. Times may be tough now, but as the summer ends I will slowly reach that ‘dream land’ that I so badly want to be at. And after all, I knowingly took on this many hours and by doing so I will be able to graduate an entire year early, which will cause emotions that will not even compare to the stress that has been consuming me during these few weeks. Lastly, the path of shoes symbolizes to me the journey that I am on. I may not get to do it wearing the fun heals, or awesome active shoes that I wish I could, but the destination that I can picture myself working towards is entirely worth every late night study session.
-Color- The colors inside the clocks are all bright and peaceful, representing happiness and the feelings of a vacation. The complementary colors can be seen on the borders of the clocks. Analogous colors can be seen in the flowers, specifically the paint sample flowers and vase in the top left clock. Saturated colors are in the red and orange flowers in the right clock. I show examples of dull colors in the background of some of the shoes in the top right corner. Warm and cool colors are scattered throughout, in the phrase cutouts and in the beach background inside the clocks.
-Light- I represent both dark and light areas through the staircase. The bottom is darker, representing how I feel spending my summer vacation taking summer classes, and the lighter represents the peacefulness of what I am working towards.
-Texture- Seen through the staircase, the black lines give a sense of roughness to the image.
-Line- An implied line is achieved through the shoes, and I have axises through my clocks.
-Space- by layering the images behind the clocks I give the illusion of depth, with a background being the images, and the foreground being the clock’s hands.
-Scale- bigger objects such as the desserts, running shoes, and the large scenic picture in the center of the collage have a larger scale because those are things that I really enjoy and describe a part of me. The running shoes in particular because, begin an exercise science major, I value a healthy body image and understand the importance of exercise. Smaller images, things like some of the flowers, the terms migraine and headache are smaller because while they do show significance in my life, they are not apparent enough nor do they influence me frequently enough to impact my personality.
-Symbolism-
#1. Clocks- time constriction of the things that I love and really enjoy doing, that I often find myself unable to do.
#2. The darkened staircase- the emotions of the summer, beginning with difficulty but ultimately ending with a happier picture.
#3. The path of shoes- the journey and the constant reminder that I have to give myself to focus and keep powering through.
#4. The black and white pot of money-flowers- I really thought this image was humorous in the way it described my financial situation recently. With it being black and white it gives a sense of dying/ lack of funds.
-Myself- Some of the hobbies and interests that can be seen in my collage are the exercise shoes, the apron- because I do enjoy cooking, and the bathtub in the upper clock- because I relish in the few times I get to relax with a bubble bath, along with several more.
-Friends and family- Seen in the bottom left clock I have picture of some of my best friends from high school along with a picture of my family and me at my senior performance, both groups of people I enjoy spending time with.
-My country- There are several scenic pictures in the collage that represent places throughout the country that I would love to visit some day. It has always been a dream of mine to travel more. One day I hope to have the blessing of time to do that.
-The world today- It is filled with so many things that deserve out time and attention to. Unfortunately, we often get consumed in other more trivial things that distract us from nature’s true wonder.
-Art- Art fits into my world today by means of helping me sort and almost prioritize things in my life. Through this collage I was able to step back and see things I have been neglecting and things that I spend far too much time worrying over.
-History- history has shaped who I am today through the things that my parents have grown up knowing, and then them passing that on down to me. I look at my collage and see so many things that I love, like baking, exercise, going to the beach, and I see pieces of my parents in all of those.
No comments:
Post a Comment