Walk the Earth

I made this collage for a color family assignment in one of my classes and it is one of my favorites.  Clearly I was working with earthtones on this one.  It started with me trying to find images of naturally occurring objects in order to best capture earthtones, rather than use false examples of the colors.  You can see rust on a water tower, blown glass, a forest, dirt on work boots, sandpaper, a clay desert, and rocks.  The story I was trying to tell while I made this piece involved a father (big boots) taking his young son or daughter (little boots) on a trek through many landscapes.  Or maybe they just went on a hike, as I did with my dad when I was younger.  Also, the large boots at the top in a stand still position symbolized a “letting go” of the child to move about on his/her own because the smaller boots are positioned to be in mid-step.