Digital Collage (Week 2)

 I'm quite late to uploading this week's assignment thanks to the stomach flu and some other factors, but I was too excited about the prompt to skip it outright. For a while, I struggled with where to begin, not sure where to start collecting the images for my landscape. I knew that I wanted to use the medium to "make things out of other things" for lack of a more sophisticated phrase, but I was having trouble narrowing that thought into something actionable.

 In the end, I realized the ocean was my golden goose. I've always felt that the ocean was a home to me, and that everything under the water felt so mystical and alien. As such, I decided to use marine objects and creatures to build my landscape.

I've always found there to be a sort of uncanny element to collage, with light sources that don't always blend together, different resolutions between images, and perspective that might not always match. I felt that creating a scene on land out of underwater objects would work with that uncanniness instead of against it, and I really enjoyed the end result of this piece. 

The only objects and textures that break the mold are the water, made from fabric and beads, and the sun, which is an orange slice!