Victorian Diorama’s

Taxidermists such as Walter Potter in Victorian times created unusual dioramas , referring back to my proposal with  a models with cats having tea parties. These fun an whimsical dioramas is something id like to imbody in my work. moving forward with the digital collages I did before I want to continue using this method but create work that’s more comical and humorous.

 

With this collage I wanted to do a take of seagulls taking your food at the beach. Using google I sourced the images and put all the pieces together on photoshop. I believe it’s more successful than the last collages, however having such a large pool of images to use on the internet I found it quite difficult to find what I wanted. For me I find the best way to collage is to source all the images you have first and then piece  them together to create an image. as well this piece seems to stray away from taxidermy too much.

In a book recommended to me, ‘The collage handbook by John and Joan Digby’,  I found to pieces by artists John O’reilly and Tadnori Yokoo. Both using animals, O’reilly using perspective to bring humour to the piece. Making himself very small next to the elephant. Yokoo uses such a bright range of colour making the image pop out and be much more playful. My next steps are to search my own books and magazines along with some books about taxidermy to find images to get loads of images to create my own collages. Making collages that have the playfulness of Victorian taxidermy, and to involve bright colour, humour and perspective to my pieces.