Week 5: Collages - Composition Focus

I made these collages by cutting and pasting my cut out of a chicken nugget. The necessary steps were copying, pasting, and then figuring out what size and shape I would make each cut out on the collage. I arranged things this way because it is easy to point out which chicken nugget is different from the rest. The chicken nugget, which I changed, grabs the viewers’ attention and draws their eyes to it. For each collage I had constants and variables. Within my three collages, the constants are that they are all the same chicken nugget (a chicken nugget painted to look like Ronald McDonald), they overlap, the hue of the image is at +180, and the lightness of the image is at +23. Within my three collages, the variables are that the locations of the saturated and hued chicken nugget are in different places, the quantity of chicken nuggets, and the saturation (collage 1 is +16, collage 2 is +100, and collage 3 is 0). I am controlling the viewer’s eye by drastically changing the hue, saturation, and lightness of one nugget. This one nugget will draw the viewer’s eye directly to it. This is a collage of chicken nuggets which really doesn’t have a meaning. I am trying to say that by simply adjusting the hue, size, saturation, and lightness of one picture, which is among the exact pictures in a collage, it can easily grab the viewers’ attention.