“ WORD COLLAGING WITH SCISSORS!”
How can we represent our identities and understanding of the world?
In order to represent our own identity through artwork, we need to establish the values that we personally consider most important to portray. After identifying personal values as contributors to our lives, we as the artists need to consider how the values are related to the greater global community. Finding similarities in aspects and values from around the world can help an individual identify how they are connected to the international or global community.
My activity involved creating a collage to display the important aspects of my personal cultural Canadian life and the same aspects that also are applicable around the world. Communicating personal identity in my art activity was expressed through the use of newspaper print words collaged together. The overall aim of my activity is to get others to pick words from print that are important or applicable to their life (either positive or negative), and to further consider how they are applicable to the international community. To adjust this activity further for younger children, they can look through magazines and cut out pictures that are important to them or pick favourite colors and collage them together.
Above: My personal word collage
Once important aspects are cut out, the artist can pick a symbol to collage them in, which represents something personal to them. For my own example, I decided to collage my words together in the shape of a butterfly to represent personal freedom. The right wing of the butterfly has positive aspects and the left wing has negative aspects, all of which are experienced personally and globally. Finally my sentence for the artwork is, “Imagine the global community”. This provokes thought for viewers as they read the words on the wings, and will hopefully attempt to consider how each aspect can apply to their own life and all lives around the world. I also picked newsprint for the background of my collage to show how the print words i picked stand out for me. Children can pick whatever sentence they feel reflects their collage best, to communicate an important meaning in their life.
ART WORD OF THE WEEK: COLLAGE
To me, a collage is a piece of artwork which contains many similar materials in the same space. Often cluttered or overlapping, collages do not contain a lot of empty space. It can be created from many artistic materials. A collage is personally created through the artist's decisions and some contents may be meaningless alone, however all pieces together as a whole is what creates the effectiveness of the collage and the message.
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