A secret. My collage for Let's Make a Collage - A Contest for All Creatives in the Hive - Round 58
A secret
If you were to ask me how this week's collage went, I would say that the most difficult thing was to find a center in the composition. I had some fleeting images of what I wanted to do. It was something like the scenes you see on the edge of the blind spot.
It had diving suits, a flooded crater, kites. I knew that the place that had emerged from @shaka's beautiful photograph was a secret place, but I didn't know why. Then the idea of the silent game of the stone beings appeared and everything began to make sense. The angel appeared later. I had a story to tell.
The story is this. It's the one you see in my collage and that each of you will read in your own way. I just hope you have fun and, if you like, tell me what you thought.
Making a collage is a very enjoyable artistic activity and it has allowed me to explore new aspects week after week, be it the techniques of the Gimp program or compositional ones. It has been very productive for me, so I recommend that you follow the calls of LMAC. Here is the link to this week's call: Let's Make a Collage - A Contest for All Creatives in the Hive - Round 58 - ✨127 HIVE in the Weekly Prize Pool!
About the process
I keep learning things about cutting and pasting and I learned to put some very faint shadows on the figures to give some relief, but what comes up are doubts, problems, things I don't know anything about. Anyway, I like this exploration.
Next, I leave the list of images I used. By the way, I discovered an early Renaissance painter who is a beauty, Pietro Perugino, born in 1523:
Sculptures
https://pixabay.com/es/photos/le%C3%B3n-estatua-piedra-escultura-833724/
https://www.pxfuel.com/es/free-photo-omfoa
https://www.pxfuel.com/es/free-photo-qwmnh
https://pixabay.com/es/photos/barro-estatua-escultura-terracota-3495396/
https://www.pxfuel.com/es/free-photo-eqlch
https://pixabay.com/es/photos/angel-ala-angelito-amor-2903783/
Kites
https://pxhere.com/es/photo/464867
https://pixabay.com/es/photos/el-papel-del-drag%C3%B3n-cometas-libertad-3489271/
https://pxhere.com/es/photo/1258861
https://www.pxfuel.com/es/free-photo-ejfbs
https://pixabay.com/es/photos/cometa-aire-cielo-azul-diversi%C3%B3n-1367186/
https://pxhere.com/es/photo/1324243
Crater
https://www.pxfuel.com/es/free-photo-xxtkm
Scuba diving suits
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Museu_Maritim_fg06.jp
https://pxhere.com/es/photo/949582
Flashlight
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Historia...de_iluminaci%C3%B3n_en_las_minas,1880_Linterna_alemana_de_mano(3553117905).jpg
The Angel
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Perugino,crocifissione(pala_chigi),_1502-04,_01.jpg
Base photograph by @shaka
I would like to close this post with Perugino's Crossifisione. There's the angel I used for my collage.
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Hello @adncabrera,
I cannot read your story. But it does remind me of the ball games the Olmec used to play. As you say, the story is one each of us will read in our own way.
A very interesting exercise. The best part of LMAC, I think, is the freedom it gives us to explore creatively.
Good luck with this intriguing collage.
Dear @agmoore, as always, you have a keen eye for stories, and I love the reference you use.
One of my favorite books is the Popol-Vuh. It is full of brilliant stories and amazing beings. The story of the Hun-Hunahpú and Ixbalanqué twins, who traveled to hell to play ball with the Lords of Xibalbá, is one of my favorites. And there is one that begins with a grandmother sending a message with a louse... There are many.
I love pre-Hispanic art and I feel that part of my identity is based on these expressions. Thank you for watching. A hug!
PS. As always, I'm late with the visits.
Thank you for the reference to Popol-Vuh. Something for me to look into :) I have great respect for the value of myth. If we go back far enough I think we begin to see connections between peoples in the ways they seek to explain the mysteries of life.
As for pre-Hispanic art/culture: The stories of Borges are rich in this legacy. Although he is a very "European" writer, his connection to the early peoples of Latin America gives his writing a timeless, universal quality. I once wrote a long paper (very, very long) on Borges because I was taken with his work. This may be one reason I identified with some of the stone statues in your collage.
Be well and peaceful in these challenging times...art is a good refuge.
Hugs back :)
Hehe, bem louco!
Adorei. :-)