Bridges

   
    For my collage, I decided to create a piece that attempts to capture the essence of time passing. Too often do I find myself with choices on how I should devote the time I am given in my life. What exactly should I be devoting the majority of my time to? Reading? Writing? Socializing? Studying? All of the above? Where do I gather the motivation and inspiration for these choices?
     As those ideas run through my head often, I drew inspiration from them and put them toward my collage. I made the focus of the piece the bridge because it resonates a sense of infinity, that deciding what to do with my time will always be a question I will ask. The bridge also represents an obstacle: that this decision is something I would need to cross if I want to move forward.
     On the left and right of the bridges, I included two different letters: one in golden text and the other in black, each on opposite sides of the bridge. This further goes back to the idea of choice but more so focuses on the notion of inspiration. The gold text represents a clear inspiration that I can draw from: that I know I'm about to spend my time wisely. The black letter, paling in elegance to the gold message, represents the poor decisions I choose to make with my time. Those days where I fall down the rabbit hole of procrastination because of one poor choice to watch a new television show or decide to spend too much time on the Internet.
     But at the end of the bridge, I still spent my time doing something, no matter what it was, hence the clock and the setting sun. There will always be consequences for my actions and my choices, from beginning to end. There will always be a new bridge to cross and a new choice to make with inspiration surrounding me.