Hockney Style Joiners

Our latest GT project that my class has been working on is photo montages. We are working on two examples, one as school pictures and one as are final which represents us. This project was inspired by David Hockney's work. His photomontages are different from mines because of course they are taken in different settings. But, he also takes more pictures than I do. In order to create a photomontage you have to take several pictures and then you combine them together. On the other hand, David takes about 100 more pictures as you can see in the picture below. I take roughly 25-50 pictures do to requirements.


Different images can have different meanings and can send positive and negative messages. Images can send positive and negative images by the emotion in the picture, if someone is smiling or laughing that sends positive messages but if the person looks angry or sad then that can send negative messages. Or if images are landscape or something else besides portraits they can send positive or negative messages by mabey the color of the sky, if there's bright blue skies with the lovely sun shining I would feel more happy and positive but if the sky is dark and stormy I would feel more on the negative side. Another example of sending a positive message is the filter like if the vibrance and exposure is up. If the filter is black and white I'd feel more sad and empty.  So overall, it depends on how to image looks.

Lastly, the message I intended my audience to see was a positve and inspried message. My photomontage is of the school campus to represent the person I am, hard working, determined , bright, happy, and joyful. School is also where I earn good grades to become smarter. I want my audience to be motivated and inspried to work hard and do well in school. I want them to know it's a safe place for anybody. To wrap things up, I just want my audience to feel happy and inspired when they look at my piece of art that I worked very hard on.:)