Collage (From the French: coller, to stick) is regarded as a work of visual arts made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. Use of this technique made its dramatic appearance among oil paintings in the early 20th century as an art form of groundbreaking novelty.

An artistic collage work may include newspaper clippings, ribbons, bits of colored or hand-made papers, portions of other artwork, photographs, and such, glued to a piece of paper or canvas.

basically, getting alot of diffent objects and mixing them together to make art.

This is a compilation of things that represent you. Get a large piece of poster board and cut pictures out of magazines depicting the things that you like to do, and that you feel would give someone else an idea of who you are. You say it has to do with "adult roles", so I would use something that shows how you feel about parenting, jobs, and the kind of future you want for yourself. Paste the pictures all over the poster board at odd angles and over-lapping each other. This is what makes a colage.

A collage is a series of overlapping pictures on a board (posterboard is fine). You will need: posterboard, a gluestick, magazines, scissors. Place the posterboard (whatever size is required) on a clean, flat surface. Go through the magazines, pull out pages that appeal to you/are representative of your life (fashions you like to wear, hobbies, politics, relationships, cars you like or once had etc. ) Clip out the images that represent you (can be past, present, future). Toss the other stuff out. The images that you clip can be in different shapes, if you like. Collage images are overlapped. Overlap the images, in a manner that pleases you, on the posterboard. Switch them around until you like what you see, posterwise. Then carefully lift off each layer . Using the gluestick, glue each layer on until the entire posterboard is covered. Voila! A great collage.