This assignment I had trouble with. For some reason, I have a hard time understanding what exactly my professor means when an assignment is given. For my first attempt at collages with composition, my pieces had little to do with composition. I liked them well enough, but they were very simple, and didn't really dabble with the idea of composition. When I better understood the assignment, I attempted one more. I started by combining two of my first pieces and adding more depth to them. As soon as I got the thumbs up, I had this cat in the bag. After I found a subject or idea to focus on, the second two were not terribly hard. I am such a perfectionist though, that finding the exact materials I wanted to work with were difficult at times, and getting it just so was even harder, I think all of my final pieces came out well.
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Rebekah, First rule in studio classes - there is no one right answer so as soon as you embrace that it becomes easier. Project parameters are set up to give you things to explore - in this case it had to do with understanding compositional space within a 2D picture plane. How does one use repetition, spatial organization, color, line, etc -- i.e., the visual elements of art -- to create an effective composition (aka spatial organization across and through the picture plane). You really began to get at this in your last collage in response to Jonathan Kozol's talk.
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