Lyrical Collage: "Time is Contagious"

This image I created is inspired by a quote from a Damien Rice song called "Coconut Skins."I was always intrigued by the song and the line "time is contagious, everybody's getting old" consistently stood out to me. After knowing which quote I was going to use, I came up with the idea of using a bunch of different styles of clocks. At first, I didn't know where I was going to take it from there so I used the clocks as almost a sort of border. Then I had another idea of using human hands, preferably an older and a younger hand and luckily I found the perfect picture on Google. Originally, it was just supposed to be the clocks, the hands, and the quote. Then I decided to try to put a close up of the face of a clock in front of the hands and turn the opacity down. This ended up looking really cool and it almost looks like the younger hand is holding part of the clock. I also think it is symbolic since there are the hands of the humans as well as hands of the clock. I played around with the font of the quote for a while. I thought I wanted a script font at first, but I decided it looked a little cheesy and cliche. I decided to look on DaFont.com and found this font called "Colors of Autumn." I thought it looked like someone was scribbling the lyrics down and gave my piece a more organic feel. Lastly, I merged all of the clocks into one layer and grabbed the eraser tool. I turned the opacity down to 50% and sometimes back up to 100% to erase parts of the clocks. For some final touches I turned the opacity down to 20%.