Sketchbook Evaluation 2: Final
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Landscape Collage: Mystic Park
This landscape is a reference to a collage artist Jesse Treece. I wanted to construct a landscape that was similar to his works with the simplicity and distinct view of the world, though I wanted to perspective. I used different texture, thickness and coloured paper. Cut out shapes from magazines and fifty year old school books. I used ribbon for the ring of saturn. I departed the sky with yarn. I glued the paper, cutouts and other materials onto cardboard. The dimensions of the landscape are 11.5 x 14.3 inches.
Portrait Collage on canvas: Struggles with Covid
My piece is about the challenges I am facing in my world right now. One of the challenges I am facing is a global pandemic of Covid-19. With Covid, I am obligated to wear a mask every time I go to a store, especially in my home town of High River, which is now trying to enforce masks being worn in any public space as part of the law. Which is represented by the mask and the coronavirus on the mask. Because of the numbers of covid are increasing, I am now moved from in-person classes to online classes on zoom. With my classes directly online for the year, I am currently staying in my hometown. Another challenge I am facing is my many injuries. In the collage, there is an image of a back, and that image is a representation of my injured back. I just recently found out a few months ago that I have an injured and c - curved spine, torn shoulder blades, and an impinged rotator cuff in my right shoulder, which is represented by the braced shoulder image on the colla...
