My Final Collage

When thinking about my two ideas, I felt limited with the marquee of the Rio. While I really liked this idea, I didn’t have a good enough lens at the time to create my collage exactly as I wanted to. With this thought and the opinions from the class, I decided to do my final collage on the Union Station. I created my mixture of old and new pictures by collaging the pictures Union Station had on display along with collaging the ones I took. Surprisingly I only had to go there four times, and the first three I always seemed to be missing certain pictures. I decided it would be best to take the current pictures with me to map out exactly what I needed and at which angles to take the pictures. I decided to focus on three different areas to create three separate pieces in which I would put together to be viewed as one. I collaged the great hall, the exterior, and the main entrance because I felt these were the most known and used sections of the large building. Originally I wanted to put them in frames to match the elegance of Union Station, but after discussing this with my peers I came to the conclusion that this would take away from the photos themselves. Instead I decided to put them on black presentation paper and use pieces of foam core to prop up each picture. I presented them in a way that I felt was the smoothest route for the eyes of my viewers. I took more than 300 pictures, but my final collage only required around 40.