I love to use letters and symbols in my work,
but very rarely do I actually aim to express
something with it - I just like the graphic
quality of symbols and fonts.
So today I was pondering
over what I could write on
that kids clothing, and I thought that
she (or he - I don´t know it myself, I tend
to draw sexually ambiguous characters)
looks very asian already so I went for
chinese. I looked these words up
on a wiki phrasebook page - "Ni Hao"
on the cap means "Hello", and the shirt
says "Monday".
Now that I look at it, it reminds
me of a group of little japanese preschoolers
I once saw on TV - they were all walking behind
their teacher in line and all wore the the same
brightly colored caps - the cutest thing I´ve
ever seen!
-Frederik
It's great you use so many symbols in your work, and funny to hear, that it's actually not to express something with them.
ReplyDeleteA friend works the opposite way, he uses books about the meaning of symbols and chooses them like this.
I like your way of working; I prefer absurd compositions or texts, and this approach. Maybe it is intuitive?
Yeah, I aim to create an immediate reaction, not to transport a certain meaning. I think these chinese letters have something optimistic about them, which fits to the characters facial expression. I think that´s why I also love to draw characters and faces the most - because we instantly react to it, as it´s part of our instinct.
ReplyDeletemadarin character on shirt mean week, not "monday" if you want to say monday : it's 星期一
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