Hockney Style Joiners

Hello my bloggers! Our class has been learning about David Hockney the past few days. David Hockney is known for his photo collages and paintings. In the 1970s, he began to produce photography and create collages called ''Joiners"- one of his well known famous collages made by Polaroid prints. He was voted the most influential British artist of the 20th century in 2011. His photomontages are different than mine because his photos are not digitally made. It costs a lot money to make his photomontages because what he did was he took pictures by using a camera, printed them out and overlapped each pictures by hand and there wasn't just one photo, there were hundreds of them. I use Photoshop for my photomontages which I can edit my photos anywhere as long as I have my computer!

Images can send positive or negative messages are usually depend on what the pictures are consist of. For example if one posts a photo of a peace sign "☮", it represents happiness, freedom, nonviolence, etc. And if one posts a photo of a gun or someone getting bullied then I'm pretty sure it's a negative messages. A lot of teens these days, they post videos of students fighting (they don't even stop them, instead they encourage them to fight more!), someone they dislike and write mean things about them, I think they should keep those things to themselves. Posting pictures of people without them notice or ''permission'' and writing mean comments really show how low-level of thinking that person is. THINK BEFORE YOU POST!

The message that I intended for my audience to see was I am an independent person in another word 'independent play' is what I am, that's why I only show a picture of one palm tree. I usually listen to music, hang out with my pup and even do my homework under that palm tree. What palm trees represent in  my opinion is that they bring peace and triumph ('cause every time I do my homework next to it, I always get my work done which is a great achievement lol). I could have taken this picture in a better way if I would have gotten closer to the tree so the audience can see the detail. As you can see though, the sky/lighting changes, it was a very mesmerizing moment because the sun was  waking up so the sky started to change color from purple to really really light purple.