Joo Ae Lee

When I first picked my quote and looked for the images, I wanted use a water pastel painting. So I looked for the one that’s suitable for my quote, “If you would be loved, love and be lovable”. My image has a man and a woman, and they are tangled with his beard and her hair. I chose this image simply because the picture shows that they are falling in love.

At first, I decided to use the whole image so I placed the quote on his shoulders so that it could be surrounded by him, and I emphasized “love and be lovable” by giving contrast of texture. The sizes, fonts, colors, forms were different and I even used contrast of direction. But I felt like this image needed more stories. Then I cut out the image with triangular shape and placed it all together. However, this time I duplicated the images of woman and placed it next to each other so that they are both tangled with the beard. It looked like two women are fighting over a guy to get his love. Then I reduced the opacity of the image because I wanted the quote to be stand out. I also used contrast of texture for each word. However, it was hard to read because each letters had different fonts and structure. It would’ve been better if I used bold typefaces and black colors rather than pink.

The variations of images gave me hard time to pick because one image gave different atmosphere for each art piece by placing the quotes and images in different ways. Also the contrast of words provided more choices of using the words and how to organize them.