sungjae themed collage just fucking dropped

[yestoday]

More of me bullshitting some analysis for school—except this time, I add my snarky annotations that cannot be included in the assignment submission for evident reasons.

Prompt:

Collage reflection paper
Once you have everything glued then consider the following:  
     a. Does you work reaffirm who you are?
     b.What area do you like best and why?
     c. What would you do different?
     d. How was this experience?
Write this evaluation of your work and post it to assignment section.

 

I believe it does represent myself quite well. The piece is bordered with an arrangement of gradients I like: of sunset hues to various tones of blue. The violet side towards the right is composed of more geometric shapes and sharp lines, while the blue side to the left flaunts a stronger flourish of organic forms and structures—such as a wild spectacle of flowers. The most prominent part is, arguably, two of my favorite photos of my man Yook Sungjae from his photoshoot for Ceci Magazine plastered in the center. He’s one of my favorite singers and celebrities and is quite a big part of my life, at this point, so yes, I do believe his presence reaffirms this collage to represent me more. A variety of fruits make appearances on this piece: peaches, tomatoes, blueberries, raspberries (see if you can spot them all!), all of which are some of my favorites! As one can tell, the fruits are quite near Sungjae in placement. This has pretty obvious fruity connotations that you can probably figure out by now. Oh, and the peaches symbolize his thick ass. One may also notice that the majority of the background bordering cutouts display the sky in one location, one time interval, one weather condition or another; for someone who intends on using my life to deep delve into space and astrophysics, the welkin means a lot to me. The last thing I would like to note is the cats. I’m a cat-lover. Those cats (somewhat camouflaged into the elements at first glance, but one is laying her head on Sungjae’s shoulder) happen to be the same cat. That cat goes by the name of Sami, and she is—not mine, but—Sungjae’s beloved pet. I would have printed out a picture of my own cat to accompany Sami if my printer didn’t run out of magenta toner, but alas. 

 

The segment I like best from this artwork is my paper cutting work. I’m unashamed to say I exerted massive energy and spent quite an extensive amount of time on meticulously trimming the flower petals and fruits shapes as to nearly revert it back to its transparent ‘.jpg’ clipart form. So, yeah; please relocate extra attention to any single bud you see and admire the unnecessarily pristine cutwork I put into those. As for my favorite area arrangement-wise, it will have to be my ingenious idea of attaching Sungjae and his cat in the midst of this madness. 

 

Something that began bothering me partway through the process was certain imprecisions of placement. One eminent example—that is on the verge of making this piece become almost unbearable to view for me if I continue to mull over it—is that the leftward Sungjae should have been inched a slight bit to the right so that he covered more of the empty space behind the orange flower. Another thing I would like to do better is the cutwork around Sungjae’s hair; that was only sloppy because, at that point, I’ve almost been completely drained of energy due to working on it for the past six (YOOK?) or more hours straight without consuming any sustenance besides the headstrong spiritual willpower to manifest Sungjae's and Changsub's arrival at Chicago for KCON soon.

 

This experience… this was certainly a project that I would not have thought about doing if not for a class’s obligations. Originally, I did not intend to spend this much time and effort into it—my agenda today was to quickly finish an assignment and get it over with. That all changed when I had the animalistic impulse to print out Sungjae—no reason or rhyme, just Sungjae in my mind. Then, this became oh-so serious to me. (In other words, I fully intended to half-ass this assignment, until I felt an inexplicable, spontaneous, and unwarranted pull… and printed Sungjae out. Then, it became serious to me.) While I must say: it was taxing, though that’s probably my own fault for going at it for six (YOOK?) hours consecutively. (Music was the only factor keeping me stable during that session; ironically, I was not listening to Sungjae nor his boy group’s songs. I was binge listening to SEVENTEEN's entire discography on shuffle, for the most part, in preparation for my plans to see their concert in D.C. now that they announced their tour dates. Before that, though, I listened to ASTRO's full album comeback four times. I would come up with a review on it, but I regret to inform that my thoughts on most of the songs are relatively middling. I did enjoy the cunty insertion of More and the slightly less cunty—but still cunty—Something Something.) In the end, though, I created something I actually feel unsatirically proud of, which was not something I was expecting from a class I merely took for the credits. Like, this is probably, at the same time, the funniest thing I've ever done and the most brilliant thing I've ever made.  I spent a ridiculous amount of energy on this, which, I think, shocked myself more than anyone else because half of the time, I barely have the strength in me to keep myself alert enough to realize I'm existing. Thinking back to this afternoon now, it's still insane that I did that. Something biological in me shifts whenever I have Sungjae in mind. Here's to Sungjae for fueling the artistic outburst? Whatever the case, I doubt I’ll ever be doing anything like this again—the motivation has come once, in a burst, due to graduation pressure, and will be well lost to the wind after this. However, this is certainly a project I’ll end up cherishing.