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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A seemingly impossible task. Take everything inside of your mind, the things that describe your hobbies, interests, who you are, and your skills, and put them in an organized tiny little space. I don't know how all that stuff manages to fit in my brain, let alone on a finite space. So, after thinking about it for a while, I decided I wanted to attempt a mobile. I thought that the dynamic movements behind the piece would bring this rough outline of my mind to life a little bit.
Well, quickly after beginning, I realized that I had greatly underestimated the amount of time needed to complete such a project. After spending most of a Friday afternoon on the project, and making not nearly enough headway, I accepted that this was not going to be anything like I imagined.
It turned out to be OK, but, being the perfectionist I am, there is much I feel like I could have improved upon. However, its an interesting piece to look at, and it does the job that it was meant to. So here are my skills:
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