.	DREAMS AND IMAGINATION: MAGAZINE COLLAGE
.	(UC, KSD, P, CLC)
.	Inquiry: How can the collage process encourage Visual EXPERIMENTATION? Investigate the way in which you can create relationships with every element or group of shapes that you add to your artwork. Objective: To broaden our sense of confronting new possibilities in understanding complex relationships.-----------------Develop understanding through envisioning new visual relationships. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Artwork: Salvador Dali, ‘Persistence of Memory’ Romare Beardon, “The Block” ------… Activity: IDEA; Consider a dream and fantasy as the subject matter for making a SURREAL magazine-collage. Use your imagination to mix and blend magazine elements to invent totally new characters. Select any magazine. MATERIALS: Cut out of magazines shapes, colors (could be only black & white), textures, words, people, animals, architecture, vegetation, etc. PROCESS: Arrange cut pieces of magazine paper in such a way that they merge and emerge as a new whole picture. For example, you could cut the head of a human and place it on the body of a cow. TECHNIQUE: Collage creates an original, new, seamless image (try to blend images by cutting out shapes without keeping the original image’s FRAMING). ISSOLATE what is usefull. Look beyond what you imagine. PURELY suggestions: You can take the cut-out human-headed-cow and place it in the sky, as if it were flying. Avoid just gluing down rectangular whole photos. Arrange the various pieces of magazine paper so they appear to be an original new composition. The background can be created by arranging pieces of color, textures or images before you arrange the middle ground and foreground shapes and images. The size of the finished collage is up to you or what the materials suggest. Everything is to be glued down flat. Make sure it sticks togeather. Do not leave any of the backing or cardboard showing (that’s the paper or cardboard you are gluing those pieces onto). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Remember, the more you follow my instructions the less it becomes your idea. Instructions could be the ‘box’ Maxine Greene asks us to think outside of.
	Reflection: How specific or random were your choices in selecting magazine image to represent a dream? What was unexpected about the finished collage?
.	Prof. John Toth http://www.JohnToth.net http://www.InnerEye.net