Collage

I have been thinking about the possibility of photographing collages in Mary St.

STICK IT!

I went to see the exhibition STICK IT! at the NGV at Fed Square.

http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/stickit/

Works including those by Madonna Staunton gave me ideas.

ISABEL DAVIES

Isabel is my mother and she is a collage artists and I admire her work enormously...of course what I have learned from her will influence my work.

She has been an active member of the Australian Women's Art Register and you can see her work at: http://www.womensartregister.org/star-DAVIES.htm

SEAN SCULLY
Sean Scully talks about the idea of photo as painting...this has made me think about photos that have a collage quality about them.

MY THINKING
When I started to think about my photos as art I started to think about the ‘collage’ quality of my photos and I started to look for collages in the streetscape.
Thinking about photos as collages has given me a framework for making judgements about my photos. Why would I choose to put 5 stars on one photo and not another? I discovered that when I assign the keyword ‘collage’ to a photo it meant that I could see something pleasing with regard to one or more of the following:
· Layer
· Texture
· Line
· Blocks of colour
· Shape rather than content
· Geometry
· Abstract