Collective Conscious

Name/Title

Collective Conscious

Entry/Object ID

2016.0009

Type of Print

Mezzotint

Made/Created

Artist

Bratt, Byron H.

Date made

1997

Dimensions

Height

16 in

Width

19 in

Dimension Notes

sheet: 16 x 19 in. (40.6 x 48.3 cm); frame: 18 x 20 in. (45.7 x 50.8 cm) Frame Size: 18 x 20 in. (45.7 x 50.8 cm) Image Size: 16 x 19 in. (40.6 x 48.3 cm)

Interpretative Labels

Label

(2025 post) Throughout this week, we’re sharing works in a digital exhibition created by Washburn student Oliver Salazar. "Objects as Embodiments" is a collection of pieces that focus on the objects we use in everyday life. From a shopping cart half your city has touched to a chair that welcomes you to relax everyday after work, these are the things we look past but that see the entire world with us. The artist called this work “a play on the concepts of the psychologist Carl Gustav Jung.” This mezzotint openly messes with the belief Jung had regarding the collective unconscious, stemming from Durkheim's collective conscious theory. In these theories there's a shared belief of layers to your mind that shape who you are and your connections with other people. Do you think the receipt holder is representative of how we’re all interrelated?