Draft Graphic Collage

I have not yet finished my collages so some of the pictures I talk about below are not yet featured there.

In my collage, there are three different levels. We start at the bottom with the people who matter most to me, including my mom, my roommate and best friend Morgan, my mentor from Kupita/Transiciones Mariah, and close friends I’ve made here at Kent, Carmen, Zoe and Mariah. My mentor Mariah and Kupita/Transiciones as a whole have become a large part of my life. Through Kupita and the friends I made there I was able to truly discover who I am as a person, and learn to love myself for who I am. This topic specifically is one that I plan to dive deeper into later.

Above that, we have several other images that represent topics that I may (or may not depending on time) talk about during this course. For example, the picture of my computer represents a potential topic of time management, and how to deal with stress, which is something I have been learning to cope with over the past few weeks. Photos like that of the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns and the student magazine UHURU indicate the topic of representation, and how important it is for marginalized people to have some form of representation.

All of the things I included in my collage have impacted me in some way. I may have realized something from it, learned a lesson from an experience with it, or I might have gained a deeper understanding of myself by interacting with it. My topic may be “About Me” but in reality, it is all of these sub-topics that make me who I am. This idea is also reflected in the topics I chose to talk about on my blog. I draw my inspiration for topics from things I have experienced, and most, if not all of my images are related to those experiences in one way or another.

I created my blog by having one background image, and several layer masks to add images over it. I added more saturation to the image of the sky and brightened up the tree in the background a bit. I resized to scale most of the pictures in my collage used the quick selection tool to fix anything that wasn’t working our right.