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  Great Lakes Aspen Excelsior (i & ii)

  Tiffany Bushka, Fleet Library, and Special Collections

  Great Lakes Aspen Excelsior is a collection of poems written from collaged text messages. The text of the book is printed within folded pages, which forces an intimacy between reader and book. Version i of this book is the more "readable" version, and version ii is the "granular" version -€”the words and letters are scattered and clumped like dirt, and the outside pages are flocked with dirt in vaguely letter-like arrangements.

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  The Clash

  Cecilia Cao, Fleet Library, and Special Collections

  This artist book honors the various musical achieves of the punk-rock band, The Clash. Without their perceptive insight into political, social and economic problems, the punk rock movement wouldn't have been as influential as it was.

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  Climbing Mt. Everest

  Izabela Clarke, Fleet Library, and Special Collections

  This book aims to visualize the experience of climbing Mt. Everest during the first major tragedy that occurred on an expedition. In May of 1996, eight people died during an extreme snowstorm that quickly swept over the South Col at 7900 meters.

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  O' Possum, My Possum

  Mary Jane Damsen, Fleet Library, and Special Collections

  This book is a love letter to possums and underdogs. The possum is an animal I've always felt especially close to, especially after leaving my hometown in the Midwest. I have always thought of them as underdogs - They're seen as varmint and 'trashy' animals, when they're really quite shy, docile and clean. This book was made from my stuffed animal, gifted to me by a close friend. Unzip the pouch in her tummy, and you can pull out a string of baby possums holding onto a poem.

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  Intercultural Swearing

  Sofiya Fayzieva, Fleet Library, and Special Collections

  “Intercultural Swearing” is based on recorded interviews with three students with very distinct backgrounds regarding how swearing is different in their native language as opposed to English. This book communicates tone, accents, pauses and personality through typography and spacing.

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  Ziggy Book

  Sabina Futch, Fleet Library, and Special Collections

  This book was inspired by Mexican shrines and was made for my dog, Ziggy.

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  Absurdities

  Elizabeth Grant, Fleet Library, and Special Collections

  Words and phrases that get under your skin...

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  Terminal: The Tragedy of the Great Barrier Reef

  Monika Hedman, Fleet Library, and Special Collections

  Without a healthy ocean we do not have a healthy planet. The sixth mass extinction is already underway, and corals are only the first victim. The death of the Great Barrier Reef needs to mean something; we need to start fighting global warming before it's too late.

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  Yu Han Mou

  Alayna Ho, Fleet Library, and Special Collections

  In September of 2017 my family learned that my great grandfather, Yu Han Mou, was the Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese 12th Army Group. After fleeing to Taiwan, he left behind land in Guangzhou that we are now trying to claim. Without ever meeting him, my grandparents, or visiting China, I was forced to turn to found digital imagery from Google, Google Maps, scans of lost family photos, and emails between my family and American Citizen Services in Taipei, in an attempt to forge memories with a past forgotten. This book is a fabricated heirloom to validate the completely digital relationship I have with my ancestral past into a tangible, convincing piece of evidence.

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  ALAC - a struggle bacteria solution for oil spilling

  Chengqui Hong, Fleet Library, and Special Collections

  A fantasy story book based on BP Oil Disaster. The little petroleum oil devils escape from the jail under the ocean. The Alac (a bacteria which can eat oil) Squad gather to fight against. But they fail then a terrible oil spilling happens.

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  The Memory Box

  Sabina Kariat, Fleet Library, and Special Collections

  I have created a ritual object shaped like a Hindu house shrine, that contains images of my grandmother's house drawn from memory. I want to enshrine the overlooked objects in her life, and emphasize the grounding relationship she has to rituals both mundane and spiritual.

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  The Parallel Life

  Arghavan Khosravi, Fleet Library, and Special Collections

  To emphasize on the narrative aspect of the painting medium I used book spines as my canvas. Books are made out of wood and have lost their conventional function. I also liked the idea of having an sculptural uneven split canvas to paint on.

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  १ - ३६ [1 - 36 translated from Hindi]

  Aayushi Khowala, Fleet Library, and Special Collections

  Hindu mythology presents an abundance of gods each god characterized by very specific bejeweled weaponry. In our time of unrest, where weaponry prompts only negative connotations, I attempt to reform the perspective, invoking appreciation and meditation, by creating an archive of objects half-referenced, half-made up, with round and shiny surfaces, beautiful but sharp, removed from their previous homes, distilled by removing all embellishment that strips itself of context, so as to provide as a purely visual feast.

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  The Beatles Calendar Book

  Jongsoo Kim, Fleet Library, and Special Collections

  Do you like The Beatles? When you see the lyrics of the song, you are humming unconsciously. If it is the song of The Beatles, which is one of the most famous singer, it will be even more. I choose 12 songs of The Beatles for each month, and wrote main lyrics of each song with calligraphy. After that, I printed them with a letterpress printing.

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  I see, I know, I believe.

  Yujin Kim, Fleet Library, and Special Collections

  This book is about my process on making photographs, which I often call a contemplative practice.

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  Book of Avatars

  Kay Liang, Fleet Library, and Special Collections

  A book that explores the interactivity, variability, comfort and entrapment of computer avatars.

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  The Final Tape

  Kathryn Li, Fleet Library, and Special Collections

  This book explores the peer pressure and unbalanced power dynamics which were instrumental to the Jonestown massacre. The text is drawn from the transcript of the last tape recorded in Jonestown, in which a woman named Christine Miller tries to argue against Jim Jones's plan to commit "revolutionary suicide."

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  Flatline

  Mochi Lin, Fleet Library, and Special Collections

  Bird communicate with each other using sound including singing, calls, squeaks, squawks, gurgles, warbles...However, as the noise level of my hometown, Beijing, rises from a flatline, the pulse of the birds gradually flatlined.

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  Two Years

  Frances Love, Fleet Library, and Special Collections

  The book "Two Years" contains two years of messages between my boyfriend and me. The messages are from October 20th 2015 (the date of our first text interaction) to October 20th 2017, two years later, and are printed on standard 81/2"x 11" printer paper, with a square cutaway for the first 100 pages that contains small figures of me and my boyfriend depicted in our underwear. I made this book as an exploration of the nature of memory and nostalgia, as well as vulnerability. The text messages function both as old-timey love notes and also a public airing of dirty laundry. However, the main goal for this piece was to make digital messages tangible. The scale of the messages dwarfs the two figures, illustrating the sheer volume of digital data a relationship creates. This comparison is at once daunting, and a reminder of the time we've shared, as our figures are undressed and nested in the pages.

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  For You

  Anna McNeary, Fleet Library, and Special Collections

  This piece comments on imbalance and reciprocity in emotional exchanges. It highlights the bittersweet tension between agency and expectation in acts of giving and receiving love.

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  Hole in My Pocket

  Kelly Taylor Mitchell, Fleet Library, and Special Collections

  This unique book was written in response to the installation "Hole in My Pocket". A reflection on plantation architecture, the master's house as home, and the power of touch and smell to remind us of oral histories left untold.

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  Sometimes the Thing You Want Bleeds in the Light

  Travis Morehead, Fleet Library, and Special Collections

  Process is a conscious and integral component of my creative practice. Ideas and iterations are constantly being generated, and a natural byproduct of this is having many more creative concepts than I will ever have time to fully pursue. I created this book to function as a repository or reliquary in which unrealized ideas could exist in a more intentional space. Each cyanotype included acts as a container for a specific idea that I had this fall, ideas that were never actualized. Originally represented as drawings or text on trace paper, these were then folded/compressed to make contact print exposures. The obscuration of their original content creates a loose visual mnemonic, providing distance to rediscover and reimagine the ideas they represent.

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  Quietness

  Ann Motonaga, Fleet Library, and Special Collections

  Quietness is part of a study on language and meaning, and the ephemeral qualities of reading haikus. The work is meant to be suggestive, provoking different experiences across time and people. Its intention is to bring one to the present moment and relish in the pause.

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  The Mark of the Courtesan

  Ethan Murakami, Fleet Library, and Special Collections

  My book focuses on the lives of courtesans in Ancient China, more specifically on their identities as musicians, poets, and artists, rather than their identities as sex workers and prostitutes due to how many were often forced into their professions.

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  Hidden Casualties

  Danielle Oh, Fleet Library, and Special Collections

  The displacement of peoples and destruction of culture due to climate change is one of the most urgent and imminent crises facing our contemporary life - yet it is ignored both by government institutions and media. This book aims to bring awareness to this issue, and to the first world's environmental neglect from which it was born.

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  Wandering

  Elena Redmond, Fleet Library, and Special Collections

  This book is a collection of thoughts, notes, and happenings, collaged into a colorful set of pages, leading the reader through the experience of the artist.

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  Yoon Dong Ju

  Yu Jin Rim, Fleet Library, and Special Collections

  Yoon Dong Ju was a Korean poet who was known for his lyric resistance poetry against Japanese imperialism. From his inspiring word choices and voice, the accordion book contains 5 poems from his work Sky, Wind, Star and Poem to recreate his voice more artistic way. The book design is inspired by Korean traditional room divider and used shadow images to portray some imagery that was mentioned in his poems.

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  Bitcoin: The Goldrush of the 21st Century

  Arjun Shah, Fleet Library, and Special Collections

  An immensely overlooked aspect of bitcoin, the energy consumption that goes into mining bitcoin accounts for 0.13% of all the world's electricity. If bitcoin's energy consumption keeps increasing at the rate at which it is right now, by February 2021, bitcoin will use all of the worlds energy. This piece illustrates the basics of bitcoin and how it works and looks at its effects on global warming and energy consumption. Hopefully the book can inform more people about this relatively unknown problem that's growing at an astronomical rate in tandem with the value of bitcoin.

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  Reason Being

  Garcia Sinclair, Fleet Library, and Special Collections

  Growing up as a young queer artist, my mother constantly used the texts found in the bible to intimidate me and affirm that I was wrong or bad for who I was suspected to be or how she feared I identified regarding my sexual orientation. She threatened my life often and would the cite the fact that the bible and its' teachings would absolve her of any wrong doing, that by murdering me she would be doing what is right or just according to religious law and her faith in it. I utilize the found bible here in a symbolic and monumental way. The object/text, is submerged into a salt solution in order for the crystals to encapsulate the bible. Salt has many uses and is associated with purification, preserving, healing, and also simultaneously corrosiveness and decay.

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  Ice Farming

  Josh Tangen, Fleet Library, and Special Collections

  Ice farming in the arctic, during 1935, with the aid of zeppelins.

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  Rosemary and Thyme

  Rudy Whelan, Fleet Library, and Special Collections

  A lesbian fairytale, will Rosemary and Thyme be able to reach each other?

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  At the Margins

  Nafis White, Fleet Library, and Special Collections

  This book was created as a response to my participation in the Women's March in Washington D.C. The photographic book chronicles the presence and participation of people originally left out of the meetings and planning of this march. The book is a way to witness and include.

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  7 Things I Miss About Home (In No Particular Order)

  Claire Wyman, Fleet Library, and Special Collections

  This book is about seven things I miss from home: my dog, my childhood friend, my mother, the nature, my best friend, the town, and my window.

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  Untitled

  Yuqi Xu, Fleet Library, and Special Collections

  Glacier retreat, mainly caused by global warming, is threatening the livelihood of polar bears.

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  The Secret Doors

  Runqi Zhu, Fleet Library, and Special Collections

  It is about the secrets behind the doors from the prohibition era.