#exploration two

I finally decided on three images:

1. A foot crushing alphabets or text

2. A robot whose speech is reprogrammed with a button

3. People speaking, with words falling out of their mouth and collecting down at the bottom.

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1. A foot crushing alphabets or text - I had initially decided on a person crushing text spelling out words related to ‘free speech’. I decided on focusing it down to the foot, as it is the foot of the person that does the crushing (if you visualise  the concept literally rather than conceptually ‘ crushing language’) rather than the person themself. The text is in 3D and its only made known via the outline i.e. otherwise it is transparent. The apparent transparency is supposed to represent the destruction and reduction of language to its bare elements - in this case, the outlining structure that holds it together. 

2. A robot whose speech is reprogrammed with a button - I wanted to show humans being reprogrammed I terms of their speech. I’ve depicted the person as a toy which has a button, which when pressed results the toy speaking/playing out a pre-recorded statement. It’s inspired by the idea of a person of authority controlling the way we communicate by controlling the kind of media made available to us. The pile of letters on the side represent the language/information not made available to the public.

3. People speaking, with words falling out of their mouth and collecting down at the bottom - I wanted to show how limiting and reducing the control over language can limit the extent to which people can communicate independently and convey complex concepts or topics. So here, instead of speech/speech bubbles/sound coming out of their mouths, actual alphabets are cloning out and falling on the floor instead. The pile of words collecting at the floor represent the potential information that has been lost due to the limited language.