Title: Two-Faced
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Process:
I began starting my digital collage by sketching up a couple different was that I wanted to represent what my digital collage was going to symbolize. The two images to the left were finalized drawings that would be implemented into my piece. Before I created my final Digital Collage, I had another idea that was never created. This idea was a more straight foreword design that was easier for people to grasp a concept of the piece with. I didn't want to do that with a Digital Collage, so I had to redesign a new one. The previous idea that I had come up with was going to be a picture of me, laying on my bed, drawing out the sad drama mask. While a camera would be closer to the eye perceptive and it would be taking a picture of what I am drawing, but instead of it being the sad drama mask, it would appear as the happy/comedy drama mask.
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Art/Culture Inspiration Western drama masks originates in classical Greece. The theatrical culture of the city-state of Athens produced three genres of drama, but the two that I am portraying in my digital collage is the tragedy and comedy masks. I use the masks in a different tone than what classical Greece had in mind, but relating to today's society. In Roman Theater, Roman dramatic tradition inherited much from Greece. The Romans added to mask-wearing by making masks with exaggerated expressions and allowing women to perform as well. The emotions expressed on the masks ranged from mournful, to joyful; all were highly exaggerated to allow the audience at the back of the theater to gauge the emotions of the actors and represented emotions of the roles that characters were playing.
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Choosing My ImagesWhen choosing the images for my collage, I used inspiration from something I had just found searching around. I saw the drama masks and I really liked the idea of a Ying and Yang comparison that I really wanted to incorporate into my digital collage. I enjoy drawing so I decided to draw out the masks, then eventually Photoshop them into my collage.
Final TouchesI wanted my digital collage to focus on the meaning rather and looks. I did this by making the collage completely black and white color schemed. For the mask of happiness, it is surround in a technological atmosphere whereas the sad or dreadful mask is isolated and lonesome. I didn't was to just leave the background empty, so I went with a faded background of white to black, showing off the gloomy and lively experiences. It was an almost last minute idea creating a keyboard into the piece. Just putting a frame/screen-looking thing about the comedy mask wasn't enough to represent what I wanted, so, I created a keyboard to show that it related to media and technology.
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