Through three different explorations, I investigate the outer edges of language. What happens at the boundary between the linguistic and the non-linguistic? What spaces for reflection emerge in the in-between?
Letters | Pine | Letters Found
In Letters, shredded fragments are reconstructed into new language material – given visual form. In Pine, a writing system is created as material for a voice beyond language – an asemic form of expression. Letters Found documents ephemeral signs – letterforms shaped by natural matter.
This work has opened up questions around shifts in perspective – suddenly see something differently by approaching the same object in new ways and discovering new aspects within the familiar. Something recognizable appears in fragments and is reconfigured in a new form.
A letter can make language visible within established systems of order and communication. But a character can also resist those systems. It can slip between categories, invite alternative readings, and deliberately remain ambiguous. Like propositions, like modes of thought, like material for what has not yet taken linguistic form.
These visual and material investigations explore language at its edges – where signs may lose their fixed meanings, and new forms of expression begin to emerge. They ask what language can become, how meaning may be constructed, and where it might dissolve. Form is never neutral, nor is the design of language. Typography serves as a tangible material that not only makes language visible, but also influences how meaning is communicated, perceived, and reinterpreted.
Letters, or signs, can be visual or textual, abstract or figurative, familiar or unfamiliar, understandable or incomprehensible. Meaning is not fixed – it arises in encounters, is shaped by context, and can change as our perspective changes.