Collages and Lines
December 2020 • Collaging & Procreate
This triptych is a study of "abstract relationships."
It represents how the people in your life influence you and take part in building the person you become.
Each individual small collage (the colorful blobs) represents a person or group of people in my life. The lines represent me as I grow older. As you can see, the lines are moving around each collage cluster, similar to how I am changed by those around me.
Deeper Look Into the Clusters
Each collage cluster symbolizes someone/some group in my life. I sifted through piles of magazines to find colors and patterns that I believe best represented who I was trying to portray; I created an abstract portrait of sorts.
About Each Piece
Each piece in the series represents how these people affect me throughout life but all will different compositions:
This piece moves in chronological order starting from the bottom. As you move up, different clusters are spread out like rocks in a stream. I placed these clusters depending on which group of people I perceived to have had the biggest impact on my life at that moment. Sometimes clusters reappear to represent their continuity in my life.
This piece is also in chronological order, showing an abrupt cut off point which represents my age at the time the piece was completed (21). Clusters appear in the order of when they entered my life, and clusters stop when I perceived that specific person or group of people no longer had a big impact on my life.
This final piece is not in chronological order. Rather, I ranked the clusters from biggest to smallest impact on my life so far. The most impactful clusters were made larger and put in the center, with the least impactful clusters smaller and towards the outside. I created a web of lines around the clusters to represent how they are connected and how they all make up a small part of me.
Additional Research Project
The Research Project that evolved out of the first triptych represents the evolution of mankind. Instead of focusing on my life, I look at the Earth's lifetime.
Each collage cluster represents a different time frame of the world (seen on the bottom right). They are spread out similar to the first piece in the triptych, like rocks in a stream. The lines symbolize the Earth – how it is changed and how it adapts to what lives on it at that moment.
