Collage - Meaning

The first thing I wanted people to notice when they viewed my work was how much light it seemed to radiate. I really tried hard to give the work this sense of electricity and light brightly coursing through all visual aspects of the piece. The various points of bright light were incorporated to signify a accumulation of knowledge in the form of digital information. My choice of color was chosen not just for its visual appeal but because of the feeling it presents the viewer with. Various hues of blue have always been associated with cooler feelings, by using blues it gives the viewer this feeling of technological professionalism, and removes much of the personal element of the piece. This is what I wanted because computers and digital codes are rather impersonal entity's doing a specific job as commanded with no understanding of consequences. I hoped that the cooler colors would help the viewer see unique individuals with personality's as impersonal entity's almost computer like.

The Silhouetted individuals I created to show that we as a human race may be all unique and different in terms of race, religion, social status, and gender but yet there is something inherently common that flows thought each of us. I used the numbering forming the individuals as a way of showing that we are all in fact not as different as we would like to think and that we are all connected. The use of numbers can also be seen as a way that we all identify ourselves. All of us have our identity recorded as various combinations of numbers and quite often those number speak to who we are. I then superimposed the silhouettes against a image of the world in an effort to further show that we are all connected no matter were we live on this planet. Finally the circling digital numbers bring the whole piece together by creating the effect of a pipe or link, the idea is that we as individuals are defined by numbers and because of this can be connected thought digital links no matter were we are in the world. The bright central point of light represents the wealth of human knowledge and our potential, it is located at the end of what could be termed the data pipe and is therefore available to be accessed or added to no matter who you are or were you are in this world. With that my over all theme is that of connection no matter who we are or were we live.