DMF Assignment Week #5 Photomontage

Last week's assignment was to combine four photos into one. I ended up doing five because I forgot it was only four! It is posted this week because I had a family emergency and had to miss my lab, which is where I usually complete these assignments.
When choosing pictures, I chose ones from my travels in high school. Obviously the finished product is very tampered. But the idea is that I began to play with new tools that help me to more effectively create and fabricate material. I really stretched my FREE TRANSFORM skills here as well as a new dimension to the tool; Perspective. This tool allowed me to warp the image I had selected and make it look even more realistic. Here is the finished product.
Enjoy. :)
p.s, that is an authentic swiss guard. Yes, he failed to arrest me for taking his picture.

1. The original images for this product are all selected from my personal photos, which I took when traveling in 2008 through Europe. The main picture is originally just me standing in front of stonehenge. Then, on one of the stones you may notice a transformed Easter Island head. That is from a picture I took of a statue in Germany, which was a replica of the originals. The swiss guard on the bottom left hand corner is from a picture I took on my trip to the Vatican City in Rome, Italy. The small version of myself in a chair is from a picture taken in Warwicke Castle, in England. And finally, the image of me on all fours making a very odd face is from a castle in Denmark. Originally I was kneeling on a marble floor beside a bronze statue of a lion, whose expression I am impersonating.
2. The most challenging part of this task was effectively arranging all the pieces. I think that if I had had more time than I would have created a more complex image. However, I am satisfied with the end product, though it is more humorous and exagerated than I anticipated.
3. The reality that I created with this image is that here, at a very iconic historical landmark, there are components that contest traditional expectations. Apparently you didn't know that there is a carving of an easter island head on one of the stonehenge stones? Well, there is! And now, thanks to me, you can see it. This image doesn't tell a sequential tale, but it is packed with implications. With the image of the guard, and me crouching on a rock, I wanted to create a feeling of mischief. Then, with me sitting in a chair making a very arrogant and mocking face, I wanted to give a feeling of spunk, and even rebellion to this piece. I wanted to push the boundaries of the picture as far as I could.