Collaboration has always been my favorite method of production - work always turns out so much more enriching and fulfilling when it is drawn together from the consciousness of more than one individual. I loved hearing the interplay between Colby's photographic investigations and Bernard's literary ones. I've been creating graphics for nearly a decade now, so I have delved into issues of text as decoration, visual stimuli, and commentary on the image. However, I loved working hands on with these two media and seeing the way that they could collage together to create an entirely different message. I look forward to completing the photomontages tonight.

I have always been, and will always be, an enormous fan of Dadaism and Surrealism. They were the two movements that pushed me into entirely new realms in my own artisitic process. One of the major facets of both movements that I am drawn to is the spontenaity and subconcious decision making involved in creating a work, and these two issues were highlighted in the exquist corpse exercise. I've participated in the game through drawing before, but never through text, but I am still deligted at the way in which meaning and connotations appear from entirely seperate agendas. In high school I would spend ages with my friends passing around a sketchbook where each person could only add one element into the picture, and the results always became far more imaginative and entertaining than anything any one person could create. I am also pleased that we are engaging in these creative acts in class, because it will provide a much richer perspective through which to view the work we are analyzing and studying.