Blog Post #15

Collage: Collage brings together two or more items that were previously separate. The resulting piece usually visually references the fact that they were once separate entities. Imagine an important place in your past. Imagine an important place in your present. Imagine who you were in both of these past and present places. Describe two photographs that you might take that could be collaged together to tell a new narrative about these important places and how they relate to who you are and were.


I think an interesting combination of photographs from my life would be of me in my Halloween costumes from various years. Halloween has always been my favorite day of the year and I have not missed a year of dressing up and going Trick or Treating yet. I think this photo would be interesting because it would be such a wide array of ages and costumes and change over time.

I also like the symbolism behind the idea of wearing costumes, because on one hand it shows a projection of my taste at the time based on what costume I chose, but it is also hiding who I actually am and what I actually look like during these years. If the only frame of reference someone has of you are photos of you in costumes, this creates a very interesting impression, since they tell different things about your personality than a picture of you in your normal clothes would. As the real you changes, so too do the masks you wear in life, and on Halloween.

Some of the changes that occur over time would be obvious, such as getting taller, but others would be obscured by the costumes some years, such as hairstyle and my face. The demeanor in the pictures would also change, I can imagine ones of me as a child dressed as a zombie or a werewolf, trying to look intimidating contrasting with ones of me as characters from video games, imitating them and looking playful and comical.

I realize this is more than “two photos,” but once I got this idea in my head I couldn’t get it out and didn’t have any desire to try and think of a second less-interesting idea that wouldn’t be a real reflection of my original thoughts on the subject and would likely be less representative of me.