"Portrait of Time" collage

In this assignment we asked: "If you made a portrait of this time what would it look like?". We were to construct 5 collages, with that question in mind. Five created using Photoshop and one done traditionally. The first idea I had was to make a collage showing what my life is about at this time, school, family, art, etc... After doing some sketching and some brainstorming, my idea shifted drastically. I realized that what I wanted to portray through my collages is that time is continuous and the only thing that ever stays the same, is that everything is constantly changing and growing. In one of my collages I try to show a life cycle, from birth to death. In another, I was inspired by our reading about lines, and used lines to represent continuity. Although I am still in the process of refining the collages I feel that what I've done so far will be effective in giving the viewer a sense of time.

I feel that this assignment has helped me to think about composition, color, and meaning. I also found that being required to use Photoshop rather challenging. I haven't had much experience with Photoshop and in the last assignment I felt pretty lost with it. I'm proud to say that I think I'm getting the hang of it. It might take me a little longer than it should, and I'm sure that I'm not utilizing all the tools I could, but I'm happy with my project so far. :)