The lesson in which we were supposed to present the collages I was sick but what I wanted to portray with the collage was the topic I chose from my curiosity journal. One of the ongoing topics throughout my curiosity journal was personal self reflectiveness; more specifically the feeling of stress and anxiety. Together with extracts from the journal I added new images and feelings to make this collage.
The images I chose for this collage are some of which I recorded in my curiosity journal but also other ones that I added on. The images are supposed to portray what I link with the feeling of anxiety but also with what calms my anxiety down. For example I use the images of candles because I feel that candles calm my anxious feelings but when looking at Nan Goldins photography I feel anxious. I also added a quote which is one of my favourites one “In much wisdom there is much grief”. It makes me think that the more we know about things the more aware we are which causes more stress and more anxiety. Which links me directly to social media, since we are all aware of what people around us or doing the more stress and anxiety we feel to live up to those expectations. This collage was the starting point of me coming closer to what I will later choose to do as my thesis project.
