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——-website for collage

The process of building and eventually destroying a collage of three images is a process that truly delves deep into the process of subconscious creativity. I started out with an image of myself acting out the pain of being bitten by Count Orlock/Dracula. I found by deleting the background it gave the image a fuzzy yet scary resolution that I liked. The four different size olive oil bottles symbolizes the theme we spoke about of male dominance. The taller bottle is the male and the four smaller bottles represents females. The part of this animation where the female bottles disappear symbolizes how males (in olden times) can “dispose” of their wives, or just females in their lives, whenever they wish. The wine bottle represents the blood. The blood that is white and pure in someone’s body and when spilled by a vampiric bite turns red from sin. That is why there is a part in this animation that evolves from white colors to red.

The usage of the program gimp and having to export even the slightest mistakes we made throughout this process taught me a lesson. It demonstrated that even the mistakes we make lead to a big picture that in the end will turn out okay and artsy, as long as we add some effects.