Finished Collage

This was the final stage of my collage. I liked the way it turned out, and I was glad that I decided to approach the construction of my collage with more preciseness than I had originally intended. My first idea was to cluster the images together into one whole piece, but it didn't look right. This cleaner style, I think, was the perfect choice.

Concept Statement:

The focus of my collage is the provide for the viewer, the perception of seeing the distance between the sky and the ground as almost imperceptible. In order to achieve this illusion, I focused on the moon and the sun because those objects tend to be the most captivating depending on the time of day. I took the moon and the sun and exaggerated their appearance in the sky to draw attention to them. Although the appearance of the sky itself is enough to look at, I didn’t want to draw all of the attention away from the beautiful environment which is why a large part of the focus of the collage is the lake and the wild life living around it. With these three main focuses of my collage, I illustrated change in time and space by the showing the change in time of day. The transition from moon to sun in itself is an illustration of not just time, but space as well. To further understand that both time and space are focuses of my collage, a hawk can be seen moving around the lake. The purpose of seeing the bridge from the viewpoint of being on the bridge is to ground the viewer, and help them comprehend the vastness of the sky and the objects in it. In reality, the sun and moon are not small

Project Two: Constructing the Collage.

I began my construction with just over 300 photos. The 300 photos were selected from a pile of 600+ photos I had taken with my phone and camera.

Because the amount of photos I had were so overwhelming, I started by dividing the photos into piles containing similar imagery so that I could categorize them.

After categorizing the photos, I started placing them on the board into possible locations I would put each section of the photos. At this point, I was still unsure of how I would construct the image, and what would be the focus of the collage.

After much thought, I decided it was best to start with the images of the bridge.

Then I began working my way towards the lake.

After deciding how the base of the collage would look, I began deciding how the sky would look.

After deciding how the sky would look, I began construction the night version of the sky.

Finally, I figured how, and where I would place each part of the sky in the collage.

Preliminary Collage Explorations

 This collage depicts the street adjacent to Mass St. I think this a great place to show the change of time in a place because I want to show on one side the street during night time, and show on the other side, what the street looks like during the day. I noticed that during the mornings or earlier hours, you can see people going to class, or people jogging and exercising. However, during the night time, specially during the weekends, there are a lot of people that go partying, and head towards mass. Using this street, I want to possibly show the two very different sides of activity that happen in this area. So, in this collage, the location is used in two ways. The location has two sides that can be easily separated using the road itself. Using the road, we can see the change in time not only through the contrast between night and day, but through the activities that occur during the two cycles of the day.

 

This collage shows Clinton Lake.  I tried showing Clinton Lake from a perspective from the middle of the road. Like the Mass St collage, I want to show on one side, night time, and the other side, day time. I would split these two sides using the middle of the road. I think this place would be a good place to show the night and day sides that I wanted to show from the first four ideas I had because I don't have to worry too much about traffic. In addition, I originally wanted to work with the sky, so with this location, I can effectively show the change in time using the road to split the collage down the middle, and use the sky as a reference to the change of time.

 

View of the sunset. Over time, show the rising and setting of the sun, with the setting of the sun being the main focus of the project because I feel like it looks the prettiest.

Inspired by one of my friends who had the brilliant idea of composing a collage of mass street similar to the picture on the right where one side of Mass St. would be portrayed during the day, and the other side being composed during night time with vibrant lights.















I'm not quite sure how I would compose this, but I think it would be awesome to compose a collage where it portrays space through the actions of the car. This is my friend's car shown going through the snow. I had an idea where the car would be shown going through different types of environment like mud, snow, water, or dirt. Since we're supposed to use people or places to show how time or space changes, instead maybe show a person running through the environment being covered in snow, water, dirt, etc.

 


Pictures of Clinton Lake. I'm not too entirely sure on what I want to do with Clinton Lake, but I feel like there is a lot of potential to show the progression of time and space on Clinton Lake. When I look at these pictures, my focus is more towards the sky, so maybe I could show how the sky changes over time, while I use Clinton Lake as a base for the photo. Maybe show the sun rising and setting, and moon becoming more visible.