Final Collage made from own photography

 

Evaluation

 

I chose the theme of “You are perfectly reflected” to base my collage on. I decided to stay away from taking the theme literally or at face value after thinking about things which came to mind when I thought about the phrase. I decided that some sort of reflective surface would be best to include, like a mirror or the surface of some water, but I feel as though that’s as literal as my thought process would possibly get.

I took a picture in black and white of myself, and a full colour picture of the large wall mirror in my home, since I needed those at least to create my collage. I cut the frame of the mirror out to use, and backed it with some black sugar paper, to create a background and the back of the mirror without glass, like a broken mirror.

I then cut the picture into an oval shape to roughly fit the mirror, and then cut broken shard shaped pieces out of the remaining pictures, sticking every piece down near the bottom of the collage to show broken pieces falling from the frame or on a floor of some sort, only leaving the section with my eyes on the mirror still. I feel like it personally represents trying to find myself, or a lack of self. I only kept the eyes in the mirror because I believe that the eyes are one of the most important parts of the body, and that they are the windows to the soul.

I think if I were to improve it, I would possibly take more care in how I arranged the broken shards, to perhaps add even more meaning somehow, like spelling words out, or creating some kind of arrangement out of them, rather than them just on the floor or falling randomly.