01 - Reflective Write-Up on Collage Project

Steven H. Lee, 100-025-323 

Imelda Villalon, Kwantlen Polytechnic University 

IDEA 2900: Creativity, Philosophy, and Identity: Reimagining What It Means to be Human

September 2022 – Assignment 01 - Reflective Write-Up on Collage Project

Reflect on the following questions…

  1. What was your experience when creating your collage?

  2. What did you discover/learn about yourself?

  3. Talk about the different images you in your collage?

DRAFT 01 (October 14, 2022) …

Work in Progress Collage: for my IDEA 2900 course, focusing on “Creativity, Philosophy and Identity: Reimagining What It Means to be Human.” I started working on this the other day.

The project started in the second or third class, which I missed as I’ve been sick. The guidelines have students using found imagery, primarily from magazines. The images were to relate to several themes including: (1) things, places, or people you love; (2) words or letters to form phrases that communicate your inner thoughts; (3) images representative of your hopes and dreams for yourself and the world around you (this feels like a vision board aspect); (4) images that represent your fears (my depression, debt, not having any kind of career, or partner to share my life’s journey with); (5) images of something you are curious about (mindfulness and spirituality); and (6) images of something you would like to change.

Because my place is a mess, I don’t have the space to make a large physical collage. So, I’m doing it in photoshop. So far, I’ve included imagery of artwork I’ve created, which is something I love. I want to scan pages from my journals to have images that would form a background. I want to surround the images of my depression with text featuring quotes about depression and overcoming it that I like. To get texts I’ve been screenshooting webpages - and you can see two examples in the “headings” for the drawing and painting section in the top left corner, and the fine art photography section in the bottom left side).

Some images have an opacity filter applied to them, so other images behind or in front can bleed through. I’ve included some images of achievements like an article about my artwork in a summer 2019 art show. I’d like to post photos of some places I’ve visited and places I want to visit. And we’ll see how it goes.

I wanted to share this with a few friends, and I thought it would be easiest to just post it here. It will be printed big, like four feet tall by six feet wide.