For this assignment, we were asked to both of our little sketches into one big project or art piece, so we had the idea to make a collage.
Let’s start off with what we both drew:
- These are Mariam’s sketches:
- These are Darko’s sketches:
What we can see is that Darko focused more on things he loved, like basketball, fitness, nature, while also thinking outside the box with the Tic-Tac-Toe game.
On the other hand, Mariam focused more on abstract things and at the same time, nature, eyes, waves and the symbol of balance in life, The Jin and Jang.
In order to combine these things we implemented a couple of methods like the Round Robin method which makes out throw ideas in turns under a certain amount of time. With this method we pushed ourselves to explore our creative thinking and just say what comes to our mind first.
The first Concept we thought of is. What if we find some eyes which would look at us , that would represent all the people and also technology companies who are looking at us all the time (It’s no secret that they can access our cameras and microphones wherever we are). At the same time the game of Basketball is all about pushing ourselves as hard as we can, all about working hard and scoring a basket, so we decided to add Darko’s favorite Basketball player, Derrick Rose. Since we both had something connected to waves, water and fish, we decided to add some colorful waves which would represent the setbacks we always experience and are pushing us back. In the Tic-Tac-Toe game fashion, Basketball is a game and we also represent life as a game. We also added a little crown on the Player to add that Game-like look where you would win a crown if you win the game.
Here is how the final collage turned out:
