In Project 4: WOW, I was looking to create images that were both striking visually, but also disorienting in the sense that their belonging in an environment or setting, sparks a moment of irrationality or surrealism. For this project, I chose to focus on using pops of color with the background black and white to juxtapose reality and a dream state.
I chose to use digital collage, because it was a medium I had always wanted to explore, but had never tried before. Analog collage was the first medium I tried that made me want to become an artist, it was different from the projects that I had created based on a certain form or sculpting( like in ceramics and drawing), it drew from a world that felt truly devoid of rules.
Creating this project made me evaluate the rules or defined sense of reality that most people have in their day to day life that defines abnormal and normal, such as a sunflower is only meant to have a dark center, not a bright colorful center.
This project felt free in the sense of the concept allowing me to experiment with redefining meaning in my art, and the medium giving me the freedom to try new techniques.
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