Beneath The Surface

Olivia Combemale

Defense Mechanisms

• Repression• Regression• Reaction-Formation• Isolation• Undoing• Projection• Introjection• Sublimation

Choosing My Project

• Modernity Project• T-shirt idea• Back to Freud• Defense Mechanisms

Process

• Research• Poems• Photography• Essay• Blurb• Printing• Installation

Challenges

• Finding primary resources• Grasping Freud’s original points, not other

people’s interpretations.• Photography inspiration• Overcoming inhibitions about the subject

matter.

Discoveries

• Self Exploration• Future Plans

Skills I acquired

• Photoshop• Writing stories and illustrating them with

photographs.• Essay• Learning how to use Blurb• Learning how to present a project in a gallery

show.

Thank you• Carrie Clark• My family• Kerry Sharkey-Miller• Kenneth Sacks• Therese Litchtenstein • Richard Dunn• Ms. Cross• Dale Scott• Models• Friends• The Ross School