Perfecting the digital collage:

Moving forward with my digital collage I decided create a word document of positive affirmations and overlay them with photographs. In contrast to the previous digital collages the images I used didn't have any human subjects in them and I used the lasso tool to cut out sections of the images. 

The first photo I used was the image of my families dinner played out on the table, I cut around pieces of food and condiment bottles using a combination of the lasso tool and the magnetic lasso tool to create multiple silhouettes, I then copied over multiples of the old document and adjusted them to size. I did the same for the other two images and tried to make sure that the sections I was cutting out were following some of the natural lines present in the image so that they didn't look too random and followed some kind of pattern. 

I really love the contrast between these images and my first digital collages, I think that the use of positive affirmations instead of a more negative hospital report conveys the development of recovery and how I have moved on and am doing better. I think that this decision invokes a feeling of resilience an power with the works, it shows that with enough time and effort you can get better, heal your wounds and that nothing bad lasts forever. I think that this will allow the viewer to feel empowered and in control, it shows that they can take back their lives and create something even better for themselves.