Thursday, April 23, 2009

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Much change

Many thing have been left behind over the last month. The ideas of a logical, scientific language understandable by many people immediately has been completely forgotten in pursuit of more truly universal ideas. The first draft of a revised proposal:

The exploration of symbols has been the fundamental impetus for many projects of mine. Symbols are, by their nature more than simply what they are visually. They are attached to an idea which allows humans to communicate over time and distance without using sound. Previously I was interested in developing a visual language that could be understood without needing to learn the language (something untrue of every writing system on the planet right now). I found myself drifting towards certain specific ideas within such a large project. Eventually I completely destroyed the project and with what was left, rebuilt it. The form it now takes is one focused on symbols and the way humans interact with and understand them. To create visual gibberish that has essentially no meaning. To humans eyes and a human brain however this visual gibberish is given meaning through the use of symbols. The symbols I choose to explore and use are those I find at the smallest and largest of scales. Single celled organisms, atoms, molecules, planets, galaxies and the universe. From the smallest to the largest these things all share a shape and movement, one that the human eye and brain recognizes and immediately gives value to.