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The range of calcified-looking objects in Ruby Jones’ “Compost” photograph are unsettling. Pale porcelain hands stained with a dark-blue substance hold a range of jawbones, shells, spore-like objects and other unidentified subject matter. Tendrils of grass or moss can be spotted here and there—the vibrant green standing out among the bleached expanse.

The feeling that something isn’t quite right in the world isn’t just relegated to Jones’ offerings. In “Fever Dreams,” the exhibit currently showing at Western Washington University’s Western Gallery, graduating Bachelor of Fine Arts students embraced a certain ambiguity when they chose the title to the art show that was a year in the making.