Favourite Work

This piece is from my Colour in Context class. We were required to create a regional collage about our birthplace using common colours we found in our own photographs. This collage is about Toronto and I used red, blue, and green as my colours. What I love about this piece of work is that I had the opportunity to use old photographs I took myself in high school. This is probably the most abstract piece of work I have ever created so I was really happy and surprised at how it turned out. The limit on colours forced me to really play with the more abstract characteristics of collages and it also helped me develop my whole idea for this project - that Toronto is a very diverse city and has the best of both worlds with its cityscape and more urban modernization coexisting with nature. That notion led me to the idea of placing rectangular shapes (flat shapes were another requirement) amongst the rocks to represent buildings amongst nature.