Technique: Collage

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I aimed to represent rage and violence by juxtapositioning sharp and chaotic, sharp triangles and lines that have a repetition of shape, against the smooth circle (Wong, 1993). I was inspired by El Lissitzky’s artwork, “Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge”

I represented the wind as sharp triangles in a rage with the circle as the winter forest with the straight lines as both trees and the wind. I left the objects white and background black as the wind is a nonphysical object, so it would make sense to be in negative space, and the forest is left white as it is a “Wintry Forest”.

I used penetration interrelationships to show that despite the rage from the wind, both the wind and the winter forest cannot harm each other. “Both forms appear transparent. There is no obvious above and below the relationship between them.” (Wong, 1972) I also kept the composition asymmetrical to have a more dynamic and moving design. (Dabner and Swann, 2014)

I found creating this poster very difficult as I was only limited to geometric shapes, which forced me to take a more abstract route, which I had never done before. I can now take what I learned about composition, shapes and negative and positive space into my next design projects.