Hannah is a Palindrome: Faculty Show Preparations

Collaborating with 20 plus students and our professor for the faculty show. We compiled a random assortment of objects, images, textures, shapes and anything else we could get our hands on. The class worked in small groups and as a whole. My small group collaged 1950's magazine images, music sheets, and maps. In the end we came up with a bacon Hitler Man. However, sadly most of the stuff we made that day never got on to the final piece. We were each given a frame and were allowed to create something that was ours to include. I painted my frame red and decided to create a stage like structure within the frame, red because the main colors in my image were warm and because when I think of stages most of the curtains are red. I used a collage for my main image. The subject matter was mason jars and human features (more personifying unreal things) the curtains were made of torn out phone book pages. I wanted to create a reverse fish bowl effect, meaning instead of the viewer staring into the object, the object stares back. I also personified the mason jars to give a whimsical surrealist look. The phone book pages present the random selection on people. I used black thread to tie the image and the frame together giving mason jars a puppet feeling. Then I applied acrylic and oil glazing on top to make the colors have a brighter appearance. Below are photos of my process

The image that i started with was a traded surface and I cut out most of the images from a Victoria secret magazine and a home and garden magazine (yes they were my moms mags)