Postmodern Principles Collage

1. Describe which of the Postmodern Principles you explore in this artwork. How does this piece illustrate them?

1. Appropriation
All the photos in my collage are borrowed and even stolen from other photographers from Flickr, and Google Images.

2. Juxtaposition
I use juxtaposition in my collage by placing the two celebrities: Paris Hilton and Kanye West in an unsual setting where they are not ordinarily together. They are usually placed in a luxurious or party-like setting. However in my collage, I placed them in a black and white setting, which symbolizes the poverished life of the youth behind them. This makes a statement on how the two celebrities ignore the poverty in the world, and shower themselves with luxury.

3. Recontextualization
I am taking both Paris Hilton and Kanye West out of their original context of partying and living a luxurious lifestyle by associating them with the children in poverty. This change of context of the two celebrities brings in a new meaning of their conceited and self-centred lives to the many lives of children barely living on food from other's trash.

4. Layering In my collage I layered many photos on top of each other to 1. show the numerous lives in poverty and 2. show how the lives of the two celebrities block our view to the bigger problems in the world, as I have shown: poverty

5. Gazing There are many gazing faces in my collage:6. Representing

1. Paris Hilton and Kanye West represent the selfishness, conceitedness, and apathy that so many people have in the developed countries of the world issues.
2. The children in the background represent the issue of poverty in the world. 

2. Assess your success. Does this image evoke many ideas / feelings? Describe its impact, visually and conceptually.

I think I am successful in getting the message of the apathethic western world across to the viewer. This collage invokes many ideas and feelings such as the idea of how selfish and self-obsessed we can be. It also invokes the feeling of sympathy for the kids in poverty. When we see this collage, we feel a need to contribute to help, instead of going on with our usual routine of worrying about our own petty problems. The impact visually is high because when the viewer looks at the collage, they are first drawn to the two big heads in colour, which is what attracts the most attention. Even when the viewer tries to look at the black and white children in the background, they are automatically drawn back to the big headed celebrities. This concept of the viewer finding the big headed celebrities in colour more attracting and and more easy to look at compared to the black and white children in the background is what I intended for the viewer to do. Although we know there are so many people in poverty in the world, we get side-tracked with our own lives and the lives of celebrities to care much about the poor. We find it hard to look at the poverty and we tend to avoid and ignore it by looking at luxurious things. In all, I think I am very successful with my collage.

1. Paris Hilton and Kanye West: they have a gaze of pleasure, narcissism, apathy, and a look that shows that they do not care. They represent the selfishness, conceitedness, and apathy that so many people have in the developed countries of the world issues.
2. The many children in the background of the photo shows gazes of sadness, hunger, helplessness, desperation, and a need for love. They represent the issue of poverty in the world.