My letter is focused around Miranda’s necklace. The necklace is gold and in the shape of angel wing to symbolize the loss of her best friend, Andrea, at the age of 6. I wanted to make a collage that reflected my perception of Andrea. I collaged two pictures of girls around our age now to show what Andrea may of looked like had she been alive today. The gold chain reminds me not only of the necklace’s chain but also of some sort of ethereal and angelic figure, specifically a Madonna. In renaissance art a Madonna is usually surrounded by gold to show her divinity which is what I was trying to capture as well. The giant angel wing in the center of the frame is composed of word fragments form Henry David Thoreau’s “Friendship,” a poem that caught my attention and seemed to really capture the meaning of friendship. The model is also wearing a pink shirt and there are pink fragments behind her. Pink is a color that Miranda said reminds her of Andrea the most.