Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Collage - An Experiment Gone Horribly Awwright

So, every year at my high school we had one week dedicated to a justice topic of some sort (People with disabilities, Immigration, Clean Water, etc.), but my senior year they decided that that was not enough -- and so JustARTS was born. Everyone in the school was encouraged to do something artistic -- write a poem, create a play, do a dance, something -- to address an issue they found important.

Some of these were kind of disturbing.
Example - The interpretive dance of domestic abuse.
Better example - The collage of EVERYONE IN THE SCHOOL's yearbook photos in the shape of a fetus, and a message to the effect of "Don't abort me."

Some of the others were really cool, though, and we had a whole hallway full from floor to ceiling.

I decided I would tackle pollution, and so I made this:




I made this collage out of a large pile of catalogs I hijacked from the promotional products store I worked at (with permission), along with the pages of a phone book, some tin foil, copious amounts of acrylics, and a board I dug out of somewhere.

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