… until I looked at it again in a different light. Even my teacher said it was “pau” (finished) when she saw the first photo of it on Facebook.
When I brought the collage to the next studio session for a group critique, we stared at it from a distance and under a skylight. The consensus was to strengthen the value of two areas on the bottom.
So I did, and to me the change made a more successful and more attractive piece.
Isn’t that true of life? Sometimes we ponder and struggle to make things just so, willing to put others’ opinions above our own, but the something isn’t quite right. Something about it bothers us.
Then, by letting it rest and revisiting it from a different angle in a new light, we notice just a small tweak here and there brings the subject into focus.
The “before” — a collage from my hand-dyed paper
“After” I added darker pink tints of paper at the bottom. It’s a subtle change that shifts the viewer’s focus.
Rebekah’s Studio 
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