Shut Up, Speak Up 闭嘴, 张嘴

2014
Animation

Apropos

This works is playing on two different radicals 口 (Kǒu), mouth and 囗 (Wéi), used to denote enclosure. The morphing words become a sort of flow of different meaning, an associative poem. In this approach we can also somehow recognise the tradition of surreal automatic writing, where a seeming randomness of thought can actually be a perfect unison between heightened consciousness and the physicality of writing. When looking at the piece, we tend to forget some of the words, and remember some others trying to make sense of the nonsensical sequence of characters.