Collage Development
These are the final few collages for the first 15 collages requested for our assignment (Part 1.1) - although I do have another couple that I hope to complete before class today working in a Photoshop space.
Revisiting family history theme. This is my Nana Pearl as a young girl and teen. She lived and served through WWII in London.
This is another using drawing done by my daughter Eleven. This time creating a piece that is diary-like for me as a mother - recording this time of her being a new kid at school in Queensland, and returning home to school in Darwin with her friends.
I’m taking Indigenous Australia (IAS101) and I also have a fascination with my third great grandfather’s lived history of being an Assistant Protector of Aborigines in the mid 19th century. How Aboriginal Australian’s were treated during colonisation, and beyond, is truly heartbreaking. With this collage I feel the addition of colour behind and between them gave them back a sense of humanity and focus on the love shared (rather on the white male observation/record/objectification viewpoint) yet there’s also the other side of the coin - the dark scribble of a rage against their plight. It feels quite hard to do anything in this space without fear of causing further objectification and offence.
I love the abstracted textures in this printed photograph - this could be an avenue for exploration
This is again an approach at conveying the life of a creative/artist mother. I enjoy how opening up the children’s art brings sunshine and warmth into the mundane.