Representation

The image that I created for my screen first came out of a conceptual idea, and then was further developed through composition. I wanted to use the collage method that I have been working on by hand, but this time using mostly my own images. I tried to find images that varied in texture and detail and still kept a meaning that was part of the overall idea for my piece. I am quite susceptible to making pieces that mimic meaning for what is happening in my world, so while I was thoughtful in choosing images with particular visual qualities, each image has a meaning that fits like a puzzle piece in the overall concept. Upon first glance, most people, I think, assume this piece is about travel, which in the end it really is I guess. But ultimately it is about an event that I am faced with planning, and the complications that come along with the responsibility.

I chose the background image, a photo of weeds on the ground, because of it's sharp contrasting texture. The image in the bottom right corner, hills from the island of Kauai, HI, I chose for it's larger planes of solid color. The image in the far left corner, with I love you on the hands, is an image I created intentionally quite a while ago for a photo series. I chose it for it's high contrast and because I wanted a human element in the image. The last vector graphic in the upper right hand corner was supposed to be of Europe but is more distinguishable as Africa, it signifies a big trip that we'll be taking at the end of my planning, a light at the end of a tunnel.

The images in the piece came together almost before I realized the overall meaning being created, but it also plays on the idea that we tend to represent things in the way that we view and understand the world.
*Emily