It is important for us to work with layers. Physically through collages I find I am not that good at it. I am better working on screen or digitally with layers. I see how this exercise is beneficial to us, because many of the programs we work with use layers. For example Photoshop, Quark Xpress for print media and even web animation programs such as Flash work with layers. The News magazines we look at, everything contains layers, Hence the importance of us doing the ollages.

For this assignment we were given several words and asked to interpret them through the form of a collage. These are my interpretations of the words.

1. 34 is grater than 12
2. Happy
3. Monkey
4. Melancholy; Gloom
5. Anger; Rage
6. Hungry; also representational of desire
7. Self Portrait

Hunger the majority of people in the class created the “hunger” collage with representations of food and people being hungry. My first notion was to think of hunger as desire. I created collage representing desire in our society at the moment. I used Images of women and words that are representational of what it means to want, to have, the things that we must do to obtain what is needed individually to satisfy our desires, therefore desire is a form of hunger.

Melancholy; Gloomy. This piece is called “the guilty bride”. I duplicated the image of the bride and I used the colored version and the gray scaled version of the image to represent the tainted and the innocent bride. I used paint and texture in this piece, with careful selection of color use. Because color also relates to feeling I took the original color (a dusty rose) and used darker shades of the color in the piece. The images are torn from each other not cleanly cut, It related to melancholy because it is can be linked to faithfulness and how many people in our society today are not. The emotions that tied with being disloyal and unfaithful are dim, hence the name “The Guilty Bride”.

Self Portrait; a typical facial image depicts a human portrait. I decided to use the lines we were directed to utilize from our in class exercises to depict a heart that is not quiet complete yet (still many things left to discover) or proportional (symmetric). A heat is symbolic of the human anatomy and emotions. I also used texture; elements of color red and yellow are used to show happiness and anger.

Happiness; inter racial relationships are common today so I decide to use this couple to show happiness, they are laughing showing carefree attitudes. Portraying our care free society and how we are now able to mix cultures and races freely. We have become more accepting of things that are different. Positioning of the individuals in the piece; two becoming one.