Every song has a story to tell, and some contain hidden stories or lessons, while others are completely blatant. In Billy Joel's song, "We Didn't Start the Fire", he doesn't hesitate to be very obvious with what he is trying to prove, which is how all of the events in his song contribute to a big fire. I chose to correct Joel's song because it spoke to me in a historical context. When researching the song, I read the majority of the story behind it and decided to reflect on it in a collage of visual images, combining the majority of the elements he mentions with images, all circled around a fire in the middle. I decided to also make cupcakes dyed red reflecting the fire Joel talks about and frost them with a flame, while placing an X on them, because he claims "we didn't start the fire." Both of my remediations have elaborate stories, starting with collage. There is a fairly complex past of collages, beginning in the early 1900s. The history of collages dates back to the days of Picasso. It's not really that long, so collages are relatively new compared to painting which began in caveman times. “The first deliberate and innovative use of collage in fine art appeared in two works by Picasso in the spring of 1912” (Kachur 1). Picasso is not considered the one who created collage, but rather the first to apply it to modern art of that era. It's not just fabulous artists who use collages. Many teens can create collages without even knowing it, simply by stitching together photos of family and friends, or clippings from magazines. Collages can be extremely dynamic or exceptionally simple, depending on who the artist is and the purpose of the artwork. Collages are a great way to visually represent......the middle of a sheet......a bookmark in history representing the events people must have encountered over those 40 years. Works Cited Delahunt, Michael. “Collage.” Artcyclopedia.com. Internet. November 5, 2009. Kachur, Lewis. “Collage.” Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. November 5, 2009. Musser, George. “Cupcakes.” Premier Academic Research. September 2009. Web. November 4, 2009. Stern, Fred. “A Brief History of Collage (The Arts).” World and I. December 2008. General OneFile. Internet. November 4, 2009. “We did not start the fire. » Wikipedia.com. October 30, 2009. The web. November 4, 2009. Delahunt, Michael. “Collage.” Artcyclopedia.com. Internet. November 5, 2009. Kachur, Lewis. “Collage.” Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. November 5, 2009. Stern, Fred. “A Brief History of Collage (The Arts).” World and I. December 2008. General OneFile. Internet. November 4, 2009. “We did not start the fire. » Wikipedia.com. October 30, 2009. The web. November 4. 2009.