Little Stories Make Up a City by the Bay

Golden Gate 16"x 24"

Here is a photograph of a collage I made for our landscape project in James Fish's UCLA Extension course. Click on it, you may be able to see it in higher detail. It is made entirely from paper cutouts from magazines, catalogues, bills, and fliers. I am very interested in how little stories make up a larger one. The pieces of a puzzle and layering both in a physical way (vertically and horizontal as I glued piece on piece) but also in a metaphorical way. Cities are so appealing to me because there numerous people living there, separate from each other, but they are all connected. I tried to visually create this by taking objects you wouldn't think would fit in a city scape, but actually do fit in. For example, the potato and muffin on the left side of the bridge. They both are not 'mountains' but by their coloration they fit in. From far away, they are not noticeable, but from a far (or in your case my cyber friend, zoomed in you can see all the little pieces that make up the story of the city).