IDENTITY COLLAGE
The essential questions in this unit asks: How can I use the methods of collage to create a compelling composition that expresses something significant about my identity?
Students collected images that represented their lives and created a collage in their research notebooks. Students were encouraged to use old personal documents, photographs. They also added their own layers of writing and printing.
I have taught this unit for many years and there are many iterations of the same core idea behind the unit. The approach to the collage changed, depending on the group of students working on their version of it.
Students also considered the style of other artists. This student liked Andy Warhol.
Most students whose examples are shown, were international students. Travel was often a subject they include in their collages.
Most of the students who produced these compositions were international students. In many of their composition there was an emphasis on travel.
Within a successful composition, nothing can be added that would make the composition stronger, and nothing can be taken away that would make the coposition stronger.
