Garbage Collage
I spent this week making a picture collage out of trash and writing poems using movie and television quotes. As you can probably guess, we have continued the theme of remixing into this week’s classes. The Austin Kleon prompt for this week asked me to make a picture collage out of my trash or someone else’s trash. Lucky for me, my roommate and I share the same trash can in our bedroom, so I incorporated both of our trash items in my collage. The first item I dug out of the garbage can was an empty manila Amazon shipping envelop. Once I saw the Amazon logo, an arrow in the shape of a smile, I immediately thought that I could cut it out and make it the stem of a flower. With the image of a flower in my head, I picked out pieces of out trash that would make pedals and leaves. In the end, I had a pile of trash that included a green Mist Twist soda bottle, a clear plastic Aquafina bottle, a red tag off of Vans shoes, and an orange Combo wrapper. In o