Synesthesia (Wood Type Collage)
This 8"x10" broadside is printed letterpress using my collection of
wood type in four colors on thick off-white stock. The colors are
teal, light blue, and 2 greens. This is a limited edition of 55, with
each broadside numbered and signed on the back. Each print is hand
pulled making it an original and slightly different than the others,
due to anomalies in inking.
"Synesthesia" means one sensory experience described in terms of another
sensory experience, such as hearing colors or seeing notes. When I was a
kid and learning arithmetic, I would get confused and think "5+2=green"
or "5+4=purple". But just as we memorize multiplication tables, I memorized
5+2=7. It wasn't until I was an adult that I knew there was a name for my
confusion (there's even a sub-genre called "grapheme" for perceiving
numbers or letters as inherently colored). I still
occassionally get confused though.
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