For me, collage is quite a funny media, as in comedic. Maybe this is because I'm not a huge fan of the aesthetic of it in general? But I just wanted to use collage to create subtle changes to images that already exist.
I'm finding it hard to explain exactly what went on during my afternoon and evening of making collage.
I decided I wanted to create my own mini brief to work towards with collage. And re-working a landscape seemed a really interesting place to start. I looked at taking a relatively 'flat' landscape image and messing with the perspective of it. I'm actually quite pleased with the outcome, I wanted the image to feel as though I was looking up at the mountain from the bottom, and I think I achieved that. Although I liked the outcome, I found it very tedious and a bit frustrating.
It was pretty much downhill from there. I wasted (maybe not wasted) literally 4 hours cutting images out of a gossip magazine and creating my own (what I deemed to be) funny situations from them. The articles in the magazine in general were a bit of a joke to begin with, but I wanted to look at certain elements and features (facial expressions, body positions, use of text) which I found interesting to create other situations from them. Which kind of fit into the brief Matt set us of creating an imaginary event.
I really wrestled with what actually classifies as collage. If I was to take one singular image and write something next to it, is that collage? Is just two images stuck together collage? Or does it need to be a group of images. I see what I made to be collage, others might not, but I enjoyed doing it anyway.
Even if it did get a bit out of hand.
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