Synesthesia Series

Intaglio Prints
8"x12" each

1.These Amps Go to 11
2. Bananas
3. Just Out of Reach

This series of prints was inspired by the psychological condition known as synesthesia. Synesthesia is an overlap of two senses due to too many neural connections. I used drypoint etching for the figurative aspects and a la poupee to selectively ink the plates.

The first print is dealing with the concept of sound-color synesthesia. In which the subject gets color activation in their visual field from hearing certain tones, in this case some metal.

The second print, deals slightly more with the continuum of synesthesia and how most people demonstrate evidence of synesthesia. For instance when cheese is described as sharp, people understand the meaning of that phrase even though "sharp" isn't technically a word that applies to the sense of taste. With this piece I tried to create a visual connection to the taste of bananas.

The third print dealt even further with the fact that most people display synesthetic tendencies. Both physical and emotional pain are described in the same way, i.e. pain. In fact they are both also processed in the same area in the brain. This piece was trying to put a visual representation on an emotional pain, when love is just out of one's grasp.