Collaging

These are photos I took the other day in class while I was working on a way to layout my collage. The main bunch of the set was an idea I had with Margie to kind of have pictures of Gus sleeping or looking innocent in a grid like form and then have a place that was frantic and had a lot of overlay and was him playing.

After showing this to Margie again, up on the wall and getting some feedback from other classmates and the TA we decided to have more space between things and to have more of a narrative.

So this is my final idea and what I am working on.

An Idea

I had been talking with Margie about how I should present my collage of my cat Gus. She had an idea of taking close up photos of my cat and kind of reconstructing that as a collage to make a bigger version of him. I thought that would be totally awesome, but then I never got around to taking those pictures. 

So then I thought, well what if I had the silhouette of a cat and put the collage of Gus into that. Have the overall outline as the cat. 

So I tried that and got some feedback from classmates and it was a good idea but Margie brought up that you look at the overall thing, you see the cat silhouette when I'm wanting you to see the cat in the photos. So it was back to the drawing board.

Collage Progression

Here are the two collages that I chose to do more with over break. At the end of class today, with the help of my peers, I chose to continue on to the final project with my photos of Gus, my cat. It will be executed differently than I did here. I will have a larger board and have little sections of collage clusters, possibly in a grid like form and have photos of him moving around my apartment as transition photos.

My Cat Gus

Chi O Fountain

Project 3 - Photo Collage

I am SUPER PSYCHED about this project! FINALLY something for my major that I can kick ass at! Well hopfully haha! I have so many crazy ideas going for this project, I might be a little too ambitious. But hey, it's go big or go home!

For this project we are to show time in some way using photos and making them into a collage with numerous photos. I instantly got a ton of ideas and once I started getting really ambitious there came even more.

Some of my ideas are the Chi O fountain and Jayhawk Boulevard, downtown Lawrence, Clinton Lake, hookah, and SKC game (going to one over spring break).

And then I started thinking outside the box. I was inspired by the Hallmark Lecturer we had last Thursday by Matt Shlian. He is a paper engineer so he folds paper. I saw one of his first pieces and was instantly inspired. What if I cut slits in a printed photo and folded them to create a 3D effect? From there I started thinking about doing buildings and having 3D effects on the edges on a few areas. A friend in my class then suggested what if I took pictures of someone folding a piece of paper and making something our of paper and the image is then slit and folded to mimic that work. IT WOULD BE SO COOL!

Then I started thinking about shooting a hallway with doors and maybe a couple of the doors are 3D and they have a little pocket that then holds a picture of the inside of that room.

My mind is going bonkers over this project and I love it.

For homework we were to take photos of a couple of our ideas and put together a mock up of a collage with a few photos. Here is what I came up with. You'll notice I have two ideas that aren't listed above as initial ideas that I had. I don't have a vehicle or an easy way to get to downtown or Clinton Lake so I improvised and came up with two other ideas. One is looking out my window in my living room and capturing day and night with the different things that show up in the window. The other is just my cat Gus and his shenanigans and the different things he does throughout the day.