Sourcing the city/Mini collages
At the start, we have to go out and source the city for materials for our mini collages. During “sourcing the city”, I have taken pictures of different textures and colors to give me inspiration or maybe use it as a texture. I and my two friends also went to the University center’s announcement board, where there are a lot of papers for advertisement. Moreover, I have some few foil papers that I left with when making my space/materiality class’ work. As result, I have collected a leaf, newspaper, foil papers and advertisements.
As above pictures, it is my 4 mini collages and I have used a lot of different colors of foil papers to give my works a metallic shine to it. The first one is a traditional Chinese shadow performance, where people use paper cut figures to cast a story behind the white screen, where lights shine on and show the figure’s shadows. The second one, which is beneath the shadow performance site, it is a door with layered wall that forms the building. The third collage is a bedroom from imagination and that it has a sort of cartoon feel to it. The last one is a metallic wall, but ripping out the “wallpaper”, you can see there is another layer. Furthermore, to move on to my final work, I chose one element from the mini collage to include, which is the ripped out “wallpaper” wall.
Final Work
For the final work, I decided to add in the Chinese opera character to make my work relates to my culture. I used the color red and yellow to represent China’s flag and the metallic somehow made the artwork itself bolder. If viewers see closely, they can see some layering and items that pop out. The bread was made out of white strings, where my friends do not need it, so I painted it black to form the long opera bread. The site that I want to form was a traditional Chinese house, where the windows are broken since traditional Chinese house’s windows are made out of paper, it is really fragile. Through the window, you can see the character from the Chinese opera and the other window you can see a repetition of Chinese letters. As a conclusion, the atmosphere that I want to create in this piece is my culture and combing with an urban material (the metallic foil papers). The whole site involves traditional detail subjects, but also the contrast between the bold urban paper that have created dynamically by ripping and seems that the subjects are popping out.
