While picking themes with fantasy/reality in mind, we went in the direction of what advertising does to the public's expectations of beauty. Advertising often distorts what is real and natural, and in some ways, what society sees as truth. The way we saw it, was that true beauty is what is real, healthy, and every day actions of a healthy individual. Beauty seems as though it is a product that someone wants to buy these days, as if it is "beauty in a jar". Through going through magazines, and we created a collage of 25 layered pictures in two montages, both constructed in ways to interpret different meanings. In one montage, it is to express the "fantasy" of beauty and what advertisements make it seem, while the other montage is to express the reality of what is natural, not Photoshopped or edited beauty.
When viewing both segments of your diptych, the first thing to catch my eye was how influential of a role the magenta plays. With the color present, it helps the eye flow through and around the composition. Aside from color, I appreciate how true you both stayed to the images; although a majority of your images were scanned, you were able to achieve the same cut-and-paste quality of a hand-made diptych montage. Good job to the both of you!
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