2. Of the 10 photographs that I took, the image that I think best communicates the essence of a texture is the picture that I took of a tree's bark. It's really close-up and you can see all of the details in the wood. I think that it was successful because you can see all of the things that make the texture what it is––you can see the bumps and splinters that make it rough and the shadows that show the 3-dimensionality of it.
3. Of the collages that I created, I think that the most successful one was the one with all of the rubbings on it. I think this one was successful because it shows not only different shapes and objects, but also the textures within them––one of my favorite parts is the leaves on either side of the word in the middle, because they are clearly outlined, and you can easily see where the different parts of the leaves were based on the textures inside of them.
4. My most successful collage is also my favorite one. I really like the collage that I created with rubbings, because I like the mixture of both objects/actual things and the textures that they are made up of. I also like the way that it highlights the word "electric" by centering it in the middle of everything else, but it is not so highlighted that the viewer doesn't notice anything else in the collage.
5. In a 3-d representation of my 2-d collage, I think that it will be important to use objects that have clear textures, so that the end result will be interesting to look at and see a variety of different textures. I also think it might be interesting to blend the textures more than I did in the collages, because that will create even more textures than I began with.
