At the beginning of this project I intended to model my collage after the work of British artist Duncan Mackay; as my collage progressed I strayed from his style a little bit. Duncan Mackay creates simple collages, focusing on techniques of image taking/making, material, and politics. Although my piece is a bit more barren than his are, I think it lends to my theme.
I tried to use many different types of images in my piece. I scanned many images, including: the cigarettes, lighter, "clouds"(moldable plastic beads), "smoke"(torn cotton), and "Water"(fabric). I also chose to use both personal photographs and images found online.
I tried to avoid too much editing in this piece because I wanted the drastic images to really speak for themselves. I believe the only things I did were play with opacity a little bit and apply a ripple filter to my "oil spill."
My goal in this piece was to represent the harmful things we use in our everyday lives and some of the repercussions they can have.
If I had more time to work on this project I probably would have a adjusted some of the scaling, as it seems a bit off. I also would have worked harder to make the images on the horizon appear to be buildings, because I don't think thats how they're reading.
Overall I'm pretty happy with how "Toxic" turned out.
when I looked at this peciluar picture done by the spanish artist Francisco Goya, I knew right away that this would insipire for the artwork that I had in mind. This print art that I have done draws the ideals from Francisco since both the newspaper and monsters symbolize the stress and fears that people experience and also draws them towards the edge of despair. In Francisco's work, the person has lost their will to get up due to the constant owls and bats that flutter around and harass them, in a very dark room. The picture that I made draws on the same spirit due to the man who has withdrawn from society for his own reasons, and then surfs on the internet to dwindle away the hours. But due to the constant negative news that our news sites and channels always seem to leash out, this man slowly goes into madness and finds even more reasons to turn away from the world, until he traps himself with his own chains. The only way out of this madness is to take the risk, go out once more, and to free yourself.
"The sleep of reason produces monsters" is made by Francisco Goya and I give credit of the artwork to him.
Feel free to critique or comment on my project.
