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0505, Visceral Typography

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{
"label_number": "0505",
"title": "Visceral Typography",
"description": "Nine digital prints each present a single large letter conjoined with unusual materials: clumps of frog eggs, strands of human hair, and hair nets. Monique Goossens, a graphic artist from the Netherlands, created these meticulously photographed prints. She uses visual imagery to elicit a tactile, visceral response.",

"tombstone": "Monique Goossens (Dutch, born 1971); Digital prints; Courtesy of Monique Goossens",

"child_object_collection": [
{"title": "Frogspawn Typography, 2014", "description": "A, B, and E are submerged in transparent blobs of frog eggs."},
{"title": "Hair Typography, 2013", "description": "Strands of hair clump together to form a, g, and p."},
{"title": "Net Typography, 2013", "description": "Hair nets cloak the letters U, C, and T."}
]
}

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