Digital Scanned Collages
These collages were done through the combined use of scanning, printing, photoshop, and then scratching into the pieces, rescanning, and then editing them more.
The process can be a little bit repetitive but really fun once you get the hang of it.
I wanted to convey the general tone of the media right now in these pieces, I've noticed for a while that the free newspapers in my building lobby are always covered in negative, morbid headlines, for instance, 'MACHETE HORROR' or 'SCALPING'. It made me think about how I could twist the context of the language used in the media to draw attention to the negativity we see in the media about death and tragic events, and how we view death as a society because of it.
I decided to go against the traditional way of using collage from pre-existing and appropriated images and actually use my own work within the collage, simply because it was convenient
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