6″wide x 6″high x 3″ deep, I created this piece as a comprehensive example for my students when we were working on developing a personal visual language and artistic point of view. This was my first time ever to create a collage that wraps around all sides of a box. I really loved bringing collage into multiple planes in this way, but this aspect also holds symbolic significance for me…in fact, for me the piece tells a story from my values and worldview. It goes like this:
Our modern material (commercial) culture can appear beautiful, inspired, magical (life-changing), exciting, glamorous, etc. In fact this desirable veneer confronts us on all sides, providing temporary sensational thrills in the form of products….but there is a dark side behind the excitement, and that is the millions of unseen impoverished factory workers whose toil makes it all possible. I represented this with an image of a brown woman hanging upside down in the shadows behind vines of flowers on the far right side panel of the collage.
