~The Next President, Global Warming, and Collages~

Last year I took AP Government and Politics for my history class, so one would think I was up to date on politics. Right? Wrong! I hated the class, and did not want anything to do with politics. However with the upcoming election it has become very difficult to avoid politics. There are essays, and debate watching for History, and of course discussions in every other class. I thought surely we wouldn't be doing politics in art class too. Right? Wrong Again! The second project of the year was a collage on the upcoming Presidential election. I was nervous. First off I was still completely ignorant to most of the political happenings going on in the world. Secondly, collages???? hmm how do I do that?

But as I thought and thought about it I decided that the issue in the upcoming election that I felt the most strongly about was Global Warming. So I started my collage with that idea in mind. I started by walking around outside collecting leaves that had very defined veins. I used colored pencils to do rubbings, and create a cool looking background. Then onto transferring. I started out really terrible at transferring. I used my own photos of trees, and nature, but hardly any of them came out right. At first I was really disappointed, but as I went on with my work, I started to like the mess ups more and more. To me they represented the mistakes we make and the pollution these mistakes can make, literally and figuratively. We try to cover up these mistakes, as did I with glued on magazine pictures, and words. Then I made it personal by adding my own handwriting. Of course I added song lyrics, because that is how I speak, through the songs of others.I used the line "I know you can see all the world and the mess that we’re making" from the song Mercy by Dave Matthews Band and the line "Do you ever feel like a plastic bag, Drifting through the wind, Wanting to start again?" from the song Firework by Katy Perry.


My collage in the making :)
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