Snap, Cut, & Paste

For my art project, I decided to go around my apartment and snap some pictures of interesting objects, shapes, and structures. After I took some (a lot) pictures, I cut the shapes out and started making a collage. I kind of liked the collage that I made out of the original pictures, but I wanted to play around with more color, so I decided to trace the shapes onto some color-aid paper and cut that out to make another collage.

Here's the finished project:

I played around with gradation, and added some bold colored frames to capture some shapes in the composition. 

This project took a while to finish, but I had so much fun creating this! While I was taking pictures, and trying to fit all the pieces together onto the paper, I realized that the things that I don't really notice or think is interesting can be very interesting if I look at it more closely.

Explore. Dream. Discover

I recently bought a book titled How To Be An Explorer Of The World by Keri Smith.  It has lots of ideas on how to look at the world around you in a way that you've never looked at before.   Some of the exploration ideas are kind of silly, but I think it'll give me lots of interesting insights/ideas for my art work.  I also think that this will be super fun to do, and that it will help me understand/get to know the amazing world around me a little bit more.  :)

"The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (one is unable to notice something-because it is always before one's eyes.)"
                                                                                 - Ludwig Wittgenstein 


How to be an explorer of the world: 

1.) Always be looking (notice the ground beneath your feet) 

2.) Consider everything alive and animate

3.) Everything is interesting! look closer!

4.) Alter your course often

5.) Observe for long durations (and short ones too) 

6.) Notice the stories going on around you

7.) Notice Patterns. Make connections.

8.) Document your findings in a variety of ways

9.) Incorporate indeterminancy

10.)Observe movement

11.) Create a personal dialogue with your environment. Talk to it. 

12.) Trace things back to their origins.

13.) Use ALL of the senses in your investigations.

14.) Have fun! :) 

Life is a scavenger hunt

 “The world is an interesting place to the imaginative mind.” – Author Unknown

Observe 

Collect

Analyze

Compare

Notice

It's fun to just go out and have an adventure! :)  

Starting from today, I am going to document and observe the world around me as if i've never seen it before.  should be fun! haha