2 New Collages -- Untitled 1 and 2

Completed two new collages tonight.

I can see some things I wanted to do differently here, but finally needed to just let it go.  Again with this one appreciating the sense of layers.  Painful to let go of some of the lower images (applied first), but again interesting to see how the overall image takes shape as new layers are added.  I think it speaks as well to the insidious relationship to attention in modern culture--everyone wants it, and take a variety of tacks to wrest it from competing messages, and your own personal thoughts.  This quality of sensory overload, and a "what have they done for you lately?  Hi, I'm a 5-story billboard for a new perfume."

Some noticeable interplay between the images, but that wasn't an intentional effect.  I'm trying to avoid cute or gimmicky things, and making each collage the outcome of a string of individual aesthetic decisions.  In that sense, it seems really about the process of choosing, of making many choices in a row, and how those choices define the space. 

This one received less attention in construction.  I like the quality of isolation to the central figures.  Repurposing superiority into isolation.  A general interplay of luxury goods, I suppose.   I was interested in doing more with dark tones in this piece, had time permitted.  An interesting start, but needed a few more layers to really get somewhere, in my opinion.

Cheers :)