Richard Hamilton Collage
Another one of our projects we were asked to recreate was the Richard Hamilton Collage. We were meant to produce our own collage with meanings behind it and show “Just what is it that makes today’s home, so different, so appealing?”
Richard Hamilton Collage
I first started off unsure of the project as a whole and didn’t really know how I was going to create a room collage full of meaning.
This is my first try at the collage and after getting feedback I realised I didn’t even know what my concept was for this.
With this collage I knew where I went wrong and why it’d didn’t meet the brief of the project or flow together as a room. It was because I was to busy trying to make it look like the originally collage I wasn’t focused on giving it it’s own meaning for 2018.
My collage shows how people with multi-millionaire businesses and who are earning billions of pounds don’t acknowledge the issue of poverty that’s happening around the world. They are comfortable in their million pound house with heating and nice decor while others don’t even have a roof over their heads.
I showed my meaning throughout the collage by using expensive looking furniture and decor; by adding the two richest mean in the world, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos and contrasting it with the outside world of the slums that people live in, with the computer showing young children out on the street asking for food and also show a documentary on BBC about poverty.
This project was very difficult for me to begin with as my photoshop skills weren’t that good and I wasn’t sure on how to portray a meaning in the collage but after I start researching the collage a bit more and receiving feedback from classmates it helped me to find the meaning I wanted to show.
Drew Moody
