Collage: In Hiding

This is the collage i came up with. I used mostly torn paper from magazines, some ephemera and textured paper. When i started this, i was drawn to the black grided textured paper. I was fully focused on it being a window through which a picture of a lady is looking through, that i just filled in the background with variety of paper. I was also more focused on creating straight and curved lines because i felt i had to break the background into portions. I have no logic as to how i worked the background. I just wanted to fill in the space making sure i put in variety of contrasting colors and have both solid colored and patterened papers. In terms of elements used, I basically wanted lines, color and texture to dominate this piece.

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