Words and Text Final

I really do love the way this project turned out. It is almost exactly what I pictured when I came up with the idea.

Some of the elements were actually pretty difficult to accomplish. Pasting the silhouette of the figure onto the poster board was a struggle because I had to be really precise to save enough room for everything on the board. Cutting out the words took a couple of days because I had so many and I wanted them to be so close to the same size. Organizing the cut out words onto the piece wasn't super difficult, I just had to be careful to make sure that each one was readable and that there weren't any colors right next to each other.

The meaning behind the overall project is simply a person overcoming bullying through the use of compliments and thinking better of themselves. A person is depicted standing triumphantly on top of a pile of degrading words and is comprised of the compliments and "good" words to show that they are protected by them.

The degrading words were made black to show that they are dark and were made with a font that is kind of rough and ruined to indicate that they don't matter to that person anymore. The compliment words are colorful to show their positivity and how they can bring happiness to any person. They were made using a curvy font for a welcoming and positive vibe. Some of the words are larger than the others and they were chosen because they are the words that could have a larger impact on a person. The larger "bad" words are the ones that could really hurt someone's self esteem the most and could be very detrimental if you were to say them to someone. The larger "good" words are the ones that could really make someone feel good about themselves. I really wanted to focus on the text since that was a requirement for this project.

I hope to do more projects with collaging in the future because I really like to work with my hands.