My own Assemblage: the Effect and Evaluation
So I finally finished the task, which means I created my own assemblage that was supposed to tell a lot about myself. I know I had sketched a draft project, but it was not my aim to repeat all the steps again. I sort of sticked to the plan, but some elements turned out to be hard to use in practice. This is the reason why my final work is only a little bit similar to the project. In general, it shows pretty much the same: these are the details that differ.
Well, I know it looks slightly messy, but it was supposed to be an illustration of my personality, so I don't feel to guilty... Let me just explain what the separate elements are to show, what they previously were to be and why they were changed.
So firstly, here we have the fragment of a girl's face. Initially I wanted her to be a hippie, with lennon-like glasses, but after I painted her extra long and thick eyelashes I realised that they won't correspond with glasses too well. The girl represents a classical canon of beauty, which also serves a specific purpose: it contradicts the suspicion that it is my portrait. The assemblage could not show me directly as a person, so this is just a random lady. Another element was her hair which at first had to turn into spaghetti, rainbow and a rope, but I wonder how I expected it to fit on a piece of paper and look good at the same time. This was an impossible task, which is why I simply decorated her head with multiple floral elements. I also sticked a branch with leaves that fell off a plant that grows in my room and it took up quite a lot of space. The flowers I used are either artificial ones (the orchid), material roses or (a more ecological option) petals made out of colourful plastic bags.
... Yellow Submarine of course! It is a symbol of my love for the Beatles and psychedelic arts as well. The submarine sails across plastic bags ocean and splashes colourful rain on the umbrella below. A toy duck, creeping behind the ship not only corresponds colouristically with the picture, but also reminds me of one of my first toys. The last part I want to talk about is the unusual cloud on the left. The brain cloud is a famous work of an American conceptual artist John Badessari, whom I truly admire for his creativity. Using this element I also wanted to separate the sea from the sky on my picture.
Generally speaking, I am quite satisfied about what I've done, however I regret not using some of my initial ideas, especially the one with a jelly rainbow. Unfortunately, I would have to change the picture's format to add all the things I consider really awesome. As I mentioned before, I am not very proud of the fact that my work is so messy, especially that I already took some actions to make it less overloaded. Yet I think this is also the point that I unconsciously made: I am totally like that and since this assemblage was to be an illustration of myself, well, shame on me.
