For this week’s collage workshop, I decided to go scientific and attempt to portray Charles Darwin’s discovery of natural selection! I decided to use a chapter from my biology textbook, which mentioned Darwin’s fascination with birds, specifically finches. The scientist studied the anatomical differences, such as beak size, between birds on the Galapagos Island. I found a magazine on birds, which contained a lot of beautiful nature photography, but I also used wings from silly ads and feathers from a picture of a tattoo. It was great having a variety of magazines to pull pictures from, because I almost feel as if collages look more put-together when the clippings are different. It’s the challenge of creating your own image and story out of pieces of someone else’s story. I definitely need to experiment a lot more before I can say I have mastered collage.
