We had to create between 5 to 10 collages on A4 paper out of a choice of two magazines, books, newspapers etc. and each must link together like a series.
My theme I chose to run through my collages was the distortion of female beauty in the media of modern-day society. This is because it is an issue with nowadays young people and I wanted to bring forth the obvious problems and things we point out in the media today. I also wanted to show what society's expectations of women and how we should look and be like verses the reality. I used two magazines due to most of pop culture and fashion are the main content in the magazines I chose.
I did like the exercise due to us choosing what we wanted to do because I am fascinated with how people are composed as a whole so I focused on what I enjoyed.
Easy? - Finding a theme and creating an interesting collage from it and using negative space around the piece to make it look more interesting - especially when its photocopied to bring out the torn edges and the difference in patterns that you didn't notice before. Its like giving a new angle on your own work which is intriguing for me.
Difficult? - I personally didn't find anything particularly difficult.
I would like to do something like this again because I really liked this exercise a lot more than the ones I've already done but there's still more to do.
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