COLLAGE time!

Well, I'll start things off with a pic of my (Keith) collage.


And I was... for some reason... really into this assignment, so I thought I'd tell a little bit about my... thought process. My collage centered on the innature(?) of animals to go with the flock and the idea that humans, as mammals, are also subjected to this manmade desire to fit in. It was sort of a motivational piece about rejecting the pressures of the majority to abandon the individual. So I first included a couple of examples of animals migrating or being herded together and contrasted that with an image of an animal "breaking off" from the rest of the group (Examples A and B).

So here are two of the examples of herding: the cattle and then the pigs. You'll note that for each, there is then an example of an animal who decided not to go with the flow. Its small, but in the cattle one, there's a pic of a cow running off alone into a church (symbolic, yes?). In the pig picture, there's one pig that doesn't want to be herded, so he is, instead, leaping away from the group, only to be restrained by his owner (like society reinforcing this need to fit in). Note that each are examples of animals that might not naturally decide to migrate together. Instead they are being domesticated by humans to do so.

I tried to tie this back in to humans with the central juxtaposition of two images, that of a pig and a human. Exhibit C(3?).


Its pretty deep, fyi. If you noticed, the pig and the woman almost have the same expression on their faces. That's because the pig is the woman. And vice versa. The pig is being forced by the man to go with the other pigs. The woman is similarly burdened (illustrated by the sand bag she is forced to carry. FORCED... BY SOCIETY).
This culminated in another of the central images, that of humans. Like animals flocking together.


good. that should do it. more posts to come.
Keith Burgelin