Objects and Obsessions

For the fourth Combined Print Media project, students explored the concept of obsessions, compulsions and fixations, while also thinking in terms of making their finished print work more "object-like."

This project turned out some of the best work of the semester, and the students certainly embraced the "obsessive" nature of the work.

R. Bryant

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Letterpress printed ornaments and sorts, layered and woven.

An exploration the OCAC type collection.

R. Kapka

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Letterpress printed halftones and linocuts, handset type and ornaments.

A unique set of trading cards.

M. Latham

Crush Collection

Letterpress printed using polymer plates and linocut, plus hand-drawing.

A catalog of fleeting obsessions.

E. Derge

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Letterpress printed using photopolymer plates, hand-cut and pinned.

Exercising control over fears by creating a personal collection.

B. Sullivan

Occupy Self

Cyanotype, letterpress printing using wood type, monoprinting.

A collection to be broken up and distributed.

B. Chavez

My Summer of Solitude

Handset type letterpress printed, hand-built wooden box.

S. Swan

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Linocut and photopolymer plates.

An accumulation that leads to anxiety.

A. Piff

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Hanset type, linocut, hand-built box, artifacts.

A collection of memories.