Blog Post 5

If the world worked exactly how I wanted…

Well, not that I can expect for it ever to. But if it did, how would I connect with my friends? What feelings and thoughts would I want? How might the perfect world look when hanging out with friends? The image collage pictured here shows the answer to these questions. The phrases, word associations, images, and symbols all have some sort of deeper meaning to me, which show how my perfect time with friends would be.

To start, instead of using a poster board for the collage, I took two vinyl records and their inserts to make the backdrop. The two records come from Paul McCartney’s Wings group. I chose this particular group to be featured because of the nature of the group. The core trio, Paul-Denny-Linda, were a group of friends who loved working together and sharing creative output. The collaborative nature of the group represents to me the collaborative connections I desire with my friends. I enjoy sharing and learning from other people. This desire for collaboration is exemplified by the picture of Jack White helping a child to sing. Here, you see two people working together and enjoying themselves.

The cover of one of the albums features the band gazing out of a window into outer space, looking back at the Earth. I like this because it reminds me of how I like for my friends to be analytical, contemplative, and interested in things of beauty, nature, mystery, and more. I like interacting with people to just think about things from a new perspective, just like the band seems to be doing. Another album cover shows the band in London. Connecting with friends is about doing new things together. I personally have never been to London, so traveling there is a new idea to me.

I find many connections with friends through music. Music is featured in many aspects of my collage. Besides the albums themselves, you see a band playing, the word “Music,” “Find Groove,” and “Dance Fever.” All of these represent how music brings me together and closer to my friends.

There is nothing like having a good time with your closest friends. My collage features groups of people enjoying themselves and each other, the words “Celebrates” and “Have Fun Out There.” I have an appetite along with my friends for experiencing the world. In a perfect world, I could “indulge” in fun, new things, music, art, people, places, and much more with my friends whenever I wanted to. “Adventure” is something I look forward to experiencing together with friends. And there is nothing like a group of “joke folks” to cheer you up. Notice the Patron, or the Jack and Coke? I won’t lie, I love having a couple of drinks and catching up with old buddies.
When I am on a beach, I feel relaxed and at peace. The picture on the beach symbolizes the relaxed feeling I desire when connecting with friends. I want to be comfortable and in a perfect world, I would always feel relaxed when spending time with friends. The man sitting at a sound board in the collage seems relaxed, and around a sound board, feels free to create whatever he wants. This is how I want to feel when connecting with friends. We have the world in front of us, and can make what we want of it.

Most importantly, connecting with friends is about being there for each other. We have a since of “purpose,” we are “humbly welcome” to each other, and have a sense of “purpose” for all that we do. The big eyeball represents how we keep an eye out for each other, and can count on that. “Quality time” is the best time. In a perfect world, “time” would not be an issue. We could make things out of nothing, such as the record player made of empty Red Bull cans. And we spend our lives connecting dots with each other, from point A to point B, represented by the dot connector puzzle in the collage. The lyrics shown from one of the Wings album inserts signifies the deeper meaning of our connections. And just like in the television show, I want to feel like my group of friends is its own “entourage.” We stick together, through thick and thin.

These are the feelings, thoughts, and expectations I have from spending time with my friends.