2012MediaStudies

Philosophy: My philosophy is to always do things that I love. I believe that in if you do things that you don’t enjoy you won’t be happy. So anything I do I want to be happy with. I know it sounds extremely cliché to say that its important to be happy, but I do think it is. I’m not saying that you can’t be sad, or mad, or feel any other emotions and just be happy, happy, happy all the time. It’s not possible to be perfectly pleased with everything in your life at all times. I think its important to feel other emotions, I believe that it is good for you. You should just focus on your goals and what you love to do, and don’t worry about much else. I can’t bear or understand when people are so frustrated over little things; it makes no sense to me. I think it’s foolish to worry and stress over things so much. I also believe in chance and luck and fate. I think everything happens for a reason. Artist statement: I showed aspects of my identity through my collage in many ways. I used pictures to establish my character and philosophy. The main idea of my philosophy was to do what makes you happy and not worry about too much. I also brought up the idea that I believed in fate, that everything happens for a reason. I took this idea and turned it into a piece of work. In the center of my collage I depicted myself, I formed a skull with quotes that are important to me, these quotes represent how I think or would like to think. On the outside of the head there are various cutout pieces that represent my personification. Since my philosophy is to do what you love I placed images that have to do with things that I enjoy, like, movies, film, and influential people to me. I put stills from the movie The Submarine into my collage because it is one of my favorite independent films, and someday I want to be apart of making an independent film. I also added Lana Del Rey to my collage; she is an influential person to me. She’s an amazing signer and also edits some of her own music videos; this is uncommon for someone as popular as her to do this, and in this way she inspires me. Another individual I am greatly influenced by that is a part of my collage is Tim Burton. I placed a picture of him and some of the characters he created into my work. Tim Burton is one of my favorite people; he is an amazing filmmaker and is so creative. Another character that I added to my collage is Twiggy. Twiggy is influential to me because I love her style, I love the sixties and the fashion back then and when I think of the sixties I think of Twiggy. Overall all of these aspects represent me. Another aspect of my collage is the black and white emotional faces that pop up everywhere. In my philosophy I declared that it is important to be happy but that doesn’t mean you have to be perfectly happy all the time, that’s impossible. To illustrate the importance of emotions in my collage I added these figures. Overall I think my Collage was successful in showing the meaning of my philosophy. This collage project was ultimately fun and helped me to figure out what my philosophy really was, and what I really enjoy.