Hockney Style Joiners

Hey hey hey! Our GT class are getting into a new/old project, Photomontages. We did this a couple years back but now we are doing it again except we are doing it more with people! If you don't know already David Hockney is one of the most influential pop artist of the 20th century known for creating photomontages. I think David Hockney's photomontages are different from my own because for one, he has been doing things like this for all his life so he has more experience on how to take pictures of something more interesting, and he has more knowledge on rearranging the photos that looks more pleasing to the eye. Also David Hockney's photomontages are different from mine because in most of his "joiners" he has a lot of photos more than the 15 we are required to take, he also takes pictures of something that is hard to capture like when it's moving.

Images can send either positive or negative messages. One way they can is if you include something that is negative in the photo like violence or inappropriate words that can send the wrong message. Also, if you take a picture of someone the message can depend on their emotions they show like if they are smiling or frowning, or crying, or jumping!  They could also send good or bad messages by the content they have in their photo. For example, if there is blue tint or cool colors that the most time are saddening colors then it can send a message using colors. Also it depends what you take a picture of, it you took a picture of the sun maybe you feel happy, or if you take a picture of the rain or a storm it can sometimes be associated with sad and depressing emotions. That's it!

For my final photomontage I am doing it of my driveway because it's where I grew up. Also it has some meaning to me because it is made of cement and on it I have my last name imprinted on it and also my hand prints from when I was younger, and I was there when we had it done in our little neighborhood. The message I want my audience to see in my final photomontage is a sense of wonder and be left a little curious. This is because I took a picture of my driveway and it's sort of like a pathway starting from your point of view (you can see my feet at the bottom) but at the end you don't know where it lead too, it just gets smaller and smaller until you couldn't see. I also want my audience to see the message where my feet start is where I'm at now and at the end it's where I hope to be in the the future, all I have to do is follow a path, and things are unpredictable at the end. YOLO thanks for reading my blog post! We will be starting a new blog post/project very soon. Peace.

This is my finished School Photomontage of Asha.

This is my finished Photomontage of my driveway, I chose to do this for my joiner because this is the place where I spent most of my childhood so far!