Collage Project- Caitlin Cummings

Philosophical paragraph:

I want to live my life searching for my passion. When I find it ill know. My philosophy is that I don’t want to live my life doing something I’m not interested in. I don’t want to live somebody else’s dream. I want to live my own dream doing what I want to do. I don’t know what I want to do yet, and so my idea is to find that dream. I only have one life and I want to live it to its fullest. Everyone always asks me why I work so hard, why I have three jobs, why I am so motivated with my schoolwork. I think its because my passion is living. I don’t want to be standing on the sidelines. I want to have my own money, so I can do what I want to do. I don’t like having to be labeled as too young for anything. I plan on making the most of everything, and that’s how I’m going to live my life.

Artist statement:

My Collage is a city. This represents my philosophical statement in that I don’t want to be just one insignificant person in a city, I want to be the city and I believe that’s what motivates me. I also picked a city for my collage because in a city there are so many opportunities that it is impossible to do everything, even though I feel that sometimes that is my goal. By putting this “city” into a box like shape, it appears almost restrained, put inside my box because I’m in control of it. I choose the darker colors for my collage because I think it represents how dark and depressing being a “cog in the machine” would be for me. This feeling is also characterized by the stereotypical city cubical job, which I represent in my collage by the rows of square windows. I also think that a city is appropriate for a collage because little pieces are put together to make the whole image, like how many different people working together form a city, institution, community, ect. The city reflects my beliefs because my goal is not to be a (metaphoric) little piece of paper.