So during our previous lessons we analysed some famous assemblage works and as we could assume, it was a preparation for our new task. This time, we are supposed to create an assemblage by ourselves! What is more this work is to illustrate us: our personalities, interests, characteristic features.
PREPARATION AND INVESTIGATING MY OWN SELF...
Well, such works always trigger an in-depth overview of all the innermost traits and result in drawing appalling conclusions. Also, here comes the dilemma what to reveal, what to save for ourselves and what is actually worth presenting (what can be shown in an attractive way and what seems to be interesting for others). After a brainstorm I made a few decisions. I wrote down all the things I love, things that are visible for others, things that can symbolise my features and the ones that generally make me. When I got them all, well, to be honest I just took a pencil and started drawing, randomly, without paying too much attention to whether it makes sense or not. To my surprise, by trying to put as many elements together, I managed to create a comprehensive picture. I mean, no, it is not the prettiest thing out there, but it links all the things together and really means something to me. Hopefully, not only to me.
THE VERY PROJECT
Here is what the result looks like, however I know it is nor very legible in such a form, so I will describe all the separate parts later...
THE HIPPIE, FRUIT AND FLOWERS
So everyone who knows me knows that I love 1960s in every aspect. everyone who has ever seen me knows it has an expression in the amount of colour and floral designs I wear. The personality assemblage would not be complete without mentioning it. In fact, it could not be mine. The hippie girl does not have to be me, thus she is not similar at all (drawing myself would be too obvious, wouldn't it?). The more floral and trashy her head, the better, that is why I want to stick fake flowers there. Not the cemetery ones of course!!! I will print out the fruit peel designs. Using real hair for her fringe would be disgusting in my opinion, so I would rather use some kind of tassels, shoe laces or (I came up with that just a moment ago) broken crayons. The John Lennon glasses are supposed to emphasise that lady's belonging to the hippie subculture. I also want her eyelashes to stand out somehow, so I may use something (maybe fake lashes?) there. The woman's hair however, fill up almost the whole rest of the picture, so they are similar to mine. There's a lot of them and they're long and kind of wavy.
So this is the top of the picture. Firstly, the girl's hair turn into a rainbow (which I am planning to make up of rainbow-jellies), then they become a wave (that bottle evokes wrong associations, I would rather remove it), through which the Beatles' (best band of all times) Yellow Submarine appears. Another artificial flower here, a SUNflower acts as a sun. Moreover there is a braid among the bunch of hair. It will be made of some kind of rope and have a continuation below the submarine. As we can see, the yellow ship makes the water splash....
RAIN IN ITALY?
So the water splashes on a group of identical people, with identical faces (how about my own?), they are all holding identical umbrellas, trying to save themselves from the rain. The palm next to them will have real coconuts cut out of a big one. Its appearance is an allusion to the fact each time I go somewhere for holidays, no matter how hot that place usually is, it rains. Moreover, I love rain so much! The spaghetti has a meaning as well, Italy is my second home and the fact that the noodles go 'straight to the girl's head' say that this country is always on my mind. I will use real spaghetti as hair here. The last detail I would like to talk about is the anchor, which I mentioned before. It is attached to the rope-braid.
