personal narrative

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This digital collage is about change and growing up: two unavoidable aspects of life. 

When I went home for fall break I found a lot of old photographs of my mom and dad, and of my sister and I when we were younger. I also found a post card from the School of Art & Design that was sent to me after my acceptance to U of M. The image that is behind the post card is of a carrousel which to me has always symbolized youthfulness and childhood. Having the post card from U of M and the carrousel image right next to each other was done on purpose to contrast growing up and still feeling like a little kid. All the images in the collage are very precious for different reasons. The street sign is my address back in New York, but when I graduated my mom decided to move to Seattle and sell our house. That house holds all my childhood memories; we lived there for 16 years and I don't remember ever living somewhere else. The photos on top are of my parents when they were married. They decided to get a divorce when I was 7. There are very few pictures I have of them together or of their wedding. 

The background of my collage is a page from Vanity Fair. I decided to use this specific page because the photos on top had a very vintage look to them with a neat border that almost looked like ripped paper. So I kept the borders but inserted my own images. Then I took one of my drawings from this semester and Posterized it on Photoshop. I also downloaded this cool font from the internet called "KG God Gave Me You." I decided to use this font because it looks like my actual handwriting and goes along well with the other font I used for the quotes under each photo of my mom and dad. These quotes are from the recent film "The Tree of Life."I was really moved by this film and how it portrayed getting older, time passing, and the creation of our world.