Lawn Care Graphic

The Lawn Care Graphic was the hardest graphic for me to visualize in my head. When I started the graphic I knew that I wanted it to be as simple as possible, but I had no idea how to achieve simplicity. I did not want to have to draw a million pests, or million rain clouds, so I decided that a matrix would be able to achieve this the best. However I came across a problem where I had to many elements for a simple matrix. So I made a box in the center of the matrix to signify pests, I then used a key in the top right to help illustrate the connection. I knew all along that I would have to figure out how to illustrate healthy grass, so I googled universal symbols for health, and the blue winged serpent symbol was the most widely used. Using symbols I was able to achieve that healthy grass was supposed to be left alone.

collage

I only received a couple of comments but from the comments I received I found that the viewers and I had found similar patterns.

Patterns I found:

- All my images/ words were cut, there were no full pages.

-I randomly placed the words, however the "find yourself text makes sense on top of the picture of multiple faces.

-Sense of depth with the envelope, Almost appears as if the red & white paper is stuck in the envelope.

-Rather random, I just grabbed any images that sparked interest and placed them. If their is any connection between the images than it had to of been a subconscious decision.

Viewers take:

-That I used a lot of overlapping. I found this comment interesting because i thought overlapping was a necessity for collages. However I was wrong.

-I left a decent amount of white space. I sort of realized this when I was making the collage. My first goal was to make a background and put all the text and images on top of it. However due to time constraints that was not possible. This comment also made me think about the possibility that I wanted all the text and images to not be obscured. I did not make a clump or mass of overlapping images.

-U - shaped: I personally never stood back and looked at the shape all the images combined made. However I found it interesting when one person commented on the collage making a U shape.

I found the entire process interesting, because you really did not have time to think. You just did. Reflecting back on my collage I wonder about the decisions I made and why I made them at the time. For instance, why did I put a dog on that man's head?