2021 Commencement Exhibition

Kieran Henstenburg

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2021 Commencement Exhibition
Photo of an electric blue book cover covered in stickers and clip art from various fandoms of eras past. The title, "All My Friends Are Losers" is written in word art. The subtitle, in a wide sans serif font, is "A Diary of Gen Z Cringe.&qu + Enlarge
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All My Friends Are Losers - Front Cover 2021 Book
Photo of the inside front cover of a book. It's a full page of word art in sort of an arched rectangle shape. The text reads "Hi my name is Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way and I have long ebony black hair (that's how I got my name) with purple str + Enlarge
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All My Friends Are Losers - Inside Front Cover
An array of four spreads of a book. All four are collaged bedrooms with a Windows Vista window that has a name on it. The first, Hannah's is a light pink room, with an orange tinge, like the picture was taken at sunset. There is a dog lying on the bed. Th + Enlarge
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All My Friends Are Losers - Room Spreads 01
Leah's room is a wannabe mall goth's dream room, with a twist. The bed is goth, with black lace bedding and an edgy tinge. The walls, however, are covered in horny anime fan art. Particular characters include Hetalia's Germany, Undertaker from Black Butl + Enlarge
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All My Friends Are Losers - Room Spreads 02
Amanda's room is more subtle. It's a normal teenager's bedroom. There is various merch items from the webseries Carmilla spread around the room, as well as a few boxes of U By Kotex Tampons. + Enlarge
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All My Friends Are Losers - Room Spreads 03
Kieran's, my own, is a blue bedroom with a Percy Jackson bedspread, a Glee Pillow, and various posters adorning the wall, including fanart from Burdge Bug. + Enlarge
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All My Friends Are Losers - Room Spreads 04
Four spreads of a book, each filled with two columns of electric blue text. Each one has a little call out word art on it. In order, they say: "Maybe I'll cringe at this, maybe I won't. What's important is that it makes me happy now.", "Wha + Enlarge
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All My Friends Are Losers - Call Out Spreads 01
Four spreads of a book, each filled with two columns of electric blue text. Each one has a little call out word art on it. In order, they say: "Maybe I'll cringe at this, maybe I won't. What's important is that it makes me happy now.", "Wha + Enlarge
Kieran Henstenburg
All My Friends Are Losers - Call Out Spreads 02
Four spreads of a book, each filled with two columns of electric blue text. Each one has a little call out word art on it. In order, they say: "Maybe I'll cringe at this, maybe I won't. What's important is that it makes me happy now.", "Wha + Enlarge
Kieran Henstenburg
All My Friends Are Losers - Call Out Spreads 03
Four spreads of a book, each filled with two columns of electric blue text. Each one has a little call out word art on it. In order, they say: "Maybe I'll cringe at this, maybe I won't. What's important is that it makes me happy now.", "Wha + Enlarge
Kieran Henstenburg
All My Friends Are Losers - Call Out Spreads
One of them is the back inside cover of a book and the other one is the full cover. The back inside cover is completely blew it with a much smaller paragraph written in the same word art style as the front inside cover. It reads, "AN: well I hav noff + Enlarge
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All My Friends Are Losers - Inside Back Cover
The back cover of the book is a combination of the same sort of small clip art from the front of the book as well as a series of collage screenshots from abandoned social media pages. + Enlarge
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All My Friends Are Losers - Full Cover

Kieran Henstenburg
All My Friends Are Losers - Full Book pages
Statement

For my senior thesis, I looked at the ways in which 2010s internet culture and fandom has influenced my life and the lives of my friends. My goal was to celebrate the "cringe" eras of our lives, instead of hiding them away and pretending they do not exist. I did this by interviewing my friends and creating imagined childhood bedrooms for each of them. I then compiled these into a book, a format that will not disappear as the internet changes.

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