In a World Full of Nonsense:
I chose Toshiko Okanoue to be my inspiration for this assignment.
Toshiko Okanoue came into the Tokyo art scene as a young woman in the 1950's after studying design at Bunka Gakuin. One of the techniques she explored there was chigiri-e, a traditional Japanese art in which pieces of handmade paper in different colours are torn and combined to create an image. After finding her own take on this type of art, her work now features the fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions that characterize surrealism.
I was drawn to her work because I find it so interesting how she takes random or contrasting objects and settings to put together to make it into it's own scene, leaving the viewers intrigued by everything going on in the image.
She began to use photos to form backgrounds to her images, in which buildings, landscapes and other elements combine to create bizarre and mysterious spaces where drama unfolds. Her expressive fragments, mementos of society and fashion which in turn reflect the era, are a major element in her creativity process.
The main elements of art and principles of design that are used in her work that are seen would be, contrast, value, and I think that all the random pieces put together in her work create a sense of unity in a way.
I think I did a good job using her style to create my own photo because I decided to use one of my favourite childhood stories as my inspiration to create my collage. I wanted to use the style to capture the elements from Alice In Wonderland because I think that movie also takes similar aspects of the movie, as it is described as "a world full of nonsense." This story has many random objects and imaginary characters which inspired me to put into one collage. I used a photo of me in my grad dress as the main character Alice, which I decided to replace the head with a fan of queen of hearts as the part where the queen says "off with her head!" I also used the little hill as my landscape to help capture a dreamy scene, with a clock in the sky, which are shown multiple times in the film. The last elements I added are a rabbit for the one in the story and some scattered tea cups falling from the sky.
Mountain View:
For my second photo for this project, I decided to use David Hockney's style of free style collages. I have done this type of photography before, but I enjoy creating my own scenes with these collages, which I did with a landscape of mountains.
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