Welcome to my first digital journal/blog/documetation/everything. I'm going to try to keep this as organized as possible. but a lot of my work is written in my good ol' paper and pen journal, so I'll probably be scanning in quite a few of those pages as well.
My first idea for a collage looked something like this:
The project required us to take the narrative of the first collage, and put it in a digital form. I thought "Okay, well I'll make the map be the floor of my living room, since that's my new home." I thought I would put up some buildings where they would be on the floor, also some couches, windows, and picture frames and all that. My first collage had a lot of pictures in frames, but after a while of working, the idea of fitting my experience into one little living room didn't work for me. I explained it in my journal here:
So, if you got your nose up to the monitor and read all that, basically I wanted to transfer the feeling of the first collage, and not just the physical elements. My whole concept for the "first week of Utas" prompt is that I'm far away from home, and learning how to navigate a new place, but also learning how to keep in touch with people back home. I thought I'd represent that with a scene from a book that I started the day after I landed, and finished last week. While reading it I connected so strongly with the narrative, that it described perfectly how I was
feeling about my personal relationships at home.
Here are the source images I used:
I found most of them through flickr.com, a photo networking site. I also scanned in something in my own handwriting:
And the end result (cue drumroll):
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