Text and Found Objects by Morgan Wedderspoon
Surface Reader 3 (detail), woodcut, digital print
Morgan Wedderspoon recently completed an MFA from the University of Alberta. Her mixed media works incorporate printmaking and bookmaking techniques, sometimes combining text and found objects.
Coincidence (detail), unbound book: photo-intaglio, letterpress
In her thesis project From the Surface, Morgan arranged a number of found objects on a table in a sort of bizarre anthropological display, then created a series of works based around these objects. The works, made with a combination of woodcut and digital print techniques, each depict a small selection of objects unified under a common word. I really like the way Morgan incorporates text into these prints as subtly as possible, making each letter look like it was made by dragging a finger across a fogged window.
An installation photo on Morgan's website
Morgan’s older print collages and assemblages now offer an interesting prelude to her object collections, each of these two-dimensional image consisting of a variety of collected shapes exploding out of a central mass.
