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Tell Me, O Muse

Rebecca Jones

Tell Me, O Muse is a thesis work about translation, connotation, and reading. left
Ennepe
The same words can have vastly different meanings depending on the reader. This letterpress
is especially evident when dealing with translation: all translators work form the
same source text, but each version is the product of a single person’s education,
experiences, and preferences.

The work in Tell Me, O Muse uses Homer’s Odyssey in its original text and its
translations to consider the topics of legibility, mutual understanding/exclusivity,
double meanings, and characterization.

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if we call them while

TALES LIES

does that make us makes us think
feel better? of deceit,

left to right: Polytropos 5
notes, oct 2019 digital
ink Polymetis
excerpt, digital

Oinops
digital

Odysseus
letterpress

Chrysothronos
digital

does one hide
within the other?

HMEARNO

are they carved from
the same material?

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Andra
excerpt, digital