Now that I’m done, I notice a couple of themes. First, there’s a zaniness to a few of the images that I selected. There’s a fox riding a bicycle, a bear playing a guitar, and a man floating in a pool, all of which strike me as intentionally somewhat humorous. In general, I tend to like whimsical aesthetics, so that is probably why I was drawn to these pictures. Second, many of the images are of people. I think I’m drawn to images of people because they have a strong capacity to tell a story. For instance, when I see the image of the man in the pool, I immediately wonder what his story is.

I also didn’t want any one image to dominate the collage; instead, my hope was that it would seem like all the images worked in harmony with one another, with no particular image standing out above the others. For the most part, I think that I achieved this, although were I to do this project again, I would probably tear off a bit more of the fox image to create space for the others.