The Benefits of Collage

«The practical benefits of collage are:

~ Collages are easy to create. No artistic skills are required.

~ Materials for collage are readily available.

~ Collages are very quick to make. It is easy to create a small collage in under ten minutes.

The emotional benefits of collage are:

~ Intuitive collage bypasses your censoring mind and can surprise you with new information about your inner life.

~ Intuitive collage provides a «symbolic release» of emotions, even if you are not yet conscious of what they are.

~ Intuitive collage can help you to «meet» and accept the inner parts of yourself that you do not normally express from your socialized self.

~ Intuitive collage expresses the various aspects of your personality in visual form, and this will help you to understand, organize and sort out your «inner landscape» so that you can witness it compassionately.

~ The imagery and colours in an intuitive collage can reveal emotions more powerfully than verbal self-expression. You will FEEL imagery on nonverbal levels»

Klammer, S. (2019). The Benefits of Collage Therapy. Retrieved from https://intuitivecreativity.typepad.com/expressiveartinspirations/2017/02/the-benefits-of-collage-therapy.html

Collage

Based on our activity from the Didactic Unit where children have to make a poster, we propose to create a link between that activity and new technologies. Therefore we show you the way to create a collage through TICs.

This one is created by us using the website BEFUNKY which is very easy to use. You only have to choose some images, create a template (where you will put all the images) and finally upload the images that you selected previously.

We left here other options to create collages, and we ask you a question, what is better use new technologies to create a collage or create it using the usual method ( photos, glue, scissors…)? Options A, B, C, D.

We think that the new method to create collage is more confortable and offer us more alternatives than the usual method. Also, using webs, the work of made collage is less because you only have to upload photos to the platform and decorate them. On the other hand, the usual method of create collages is more satisfactory and provide you relax and paciencie. Now, it’s your turn, what do you think?