Opposite of Upcycle Project – Disorder

For my upcycling project, I chose to create a mosaic out of paper of “The Great Wave of Kanagawa”.  The style of a mosaic is putting pieces together to make a masterpiece in which can be defined into picture, shape, object, something identifiable.  Mosaics are found to decorate walls and floors and were fairly popular in Rome.  These pieces come together in a sort of pattern sorted into a limited color pallet that can’t really be formed into realistic art.  It is something that cannot be reassembled from it’s individual pieces and have been found to be used for religious and cultural aspects.  Shades of color are more choppy in transition but can be formed in an order that makes sense to the viewer.

The opposite of a mosaic is disorder.  Disorder can be described as chaos as pieces can come together but still not make sense to the viewer.  Think about a tornado and how it destroys everything in it’s way and the disorder it creates.  Colors can be identified but it doesn’t create anything from them.  Scattered lines and speckled dots can cover the canvas yet with no story to tell.  It’s a bit more on the abstract side.  In the picture below, shapes, colors and objects are used to describe the reality of the artists message to the world.  In comparison to the mosaic above, you can see how colors aren’t meant to fit in the lines as they blend with each other to create different colors.  Eyeballs can be shown as a glimpse of something identifiable but it still brings chaos to the overall piece.  It screams more experimentation than it does the reality of this world.

Cited work:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic