Project5&6_SethPrior

Fragile Escape, Seth Prior

Digital Art Foundations, Dahye Kim

Process: The theme, story, and process changed overtime and I used many different tools and methods in photoshop and real world applications. I started off by trying to figure out how I would take the piece I made in photoshop and incorporate it into my collage and landed on doing a newspaper background to make it seem busy. I thought of hands coming out of the newspaper so I found some on google, traced them using the brush tool and added shadows where I needed to using the smudge tool and changing the opacity. I then landed on the idea of my photoshop piece being fragmented and decided to cut it in half, putting pieces in the hands as if the hands were holding the piece before the reality of it was ripped. I then put the definitions of “fragile” and “escape” in the corners. I then cut my newspaper down around the same area as the photoshop piece, even through the definitions. Over the weekend I used staples, tape, pins, string and glue to hold the pieces together to make it seem even more fragile. I added shadows and depth using oil pastels and at that point I was finally happy with my collage.

Idea: The idea came along through the process, I jumped from idea to idea and had a hard time figuring out exactly the meaning I wanted to express but eventually found it. I titled the piece “Fragile Escape” using things such as fragmenting my picture and poster as well as using newspaper to make a busy background. Any escape is fragile and something as little as someone stomping on the floor above you can disrupt it and make all your thoughts and imagination become fragmented and lost. More busyness will consume you as you realize other noises, such as a clock ticking, people talking, or your AC coming on. These little things can completely disrupt your train of thought and break and take everything you were just thinking of away from you. This is what I wanted to represent in my piece “Fragile Escape”.