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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There's more about synesthesia on Wikipedia.

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