Lexicon Collage

FEAR

"You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop and look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."

-Eleanor Roosevelt

CREATIVITY

"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties"

-Eric Iromm

AMAZING

"The best day of your life is the one in which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours it is an amazing journey, and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins"

-Bob Moawad

ADDICTIVE

"The biggest liar is addiction"

-Anonymous

The Lexicon Collage project is a collaborative piece, were students choose a word from a predetermined list of words. After writing the word and the definition on the back the students then paint the background to express the descriptive word. Then the cards are passed to other students who complete the next step. They can either distress the background with sandpaper or x-acto knifes. Students then add more color lines using oil pastels, crayons, conte, and watercolors. The cards are then passed to other students again were they are able to add collage ideas. Either by gluing on magazine pictures, drawing textures, or doing transfers to further develop a visual definition of the word on the back of the card. After this step the cards are giving back to the original owner to add any finishing touches to make it their own. The card is then mounted on a piece of paper and labeled with the word it depicts and a definition or description of the word.