Medium Specificity

The YouTube series The Art Assignment is exactly what it sounds like. On it, each week a different artist is highlighted and gives a unique assignment that may challenges art as you know it. The show aims to “demystify the art making process and bring you to a wider understanding of what art is and what it can be.” This weeks class assignment also did this.

It took me a while to figure out what I wanted to do for this assignment. While I was reading Setting The Record Straight it made me question the definitions of other art mediums. So, I decided to look up some definitions for collage. I found that collage is universally defined as an artistic composition made by attaching various materials to a flat surface. I decided to explore that idea a bit more. I normally think of collages as physically cutting things out of magazines, that you might not think normally goes together and posting them together. For the project I thought it would be interesting to try collaging digitally instead of physically and try things that were a little closer related.

While out hiking in Eureka, I took a bunch of pictures while standing in the same spot. I wanted to see what they all look like put back together. After, I went though and played around with different pictures in front and how wide I wanted the final piece to be. I organized it to be as esthetically pleasing as I could. I didn’t worry much about making each picture fit perfectly because I felt that achieves more of a collage feel. I changed the overall contrast of the group of pictures but not pictures individually.
I thought it was very interesting that all the pictures were taken within a few minutes but the colors changed.Even though it wasn’t the nicest day out and each individual picture wasn’t that great, I think it looks cooler then one of the pictures would on it's own. Collages let you take things and put them together to make something new and sometimes better then one of the parts by themselves.