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Flefixx is an idiosyncratic visual language and typeface
system that finds and creates narratives based on common
combination of letters.
When we hear someone speak in a language we don't know, we
hear only sound. Words in a foreign language create a
fictional world around us, we can only imagine the true
meaning of these sounds. Learning a foreign language is the
task of dismantling our reality and putting it back together
in a new shape. The process of learning a language reveals
characteristics of the language - its subjectivity,
abstraction and arbitrariness.
My work takes language apart not according to etymology but
by finding and creating images in the common combinations of
letters that make up words. I worked with selected prefixes
to make a small prototype of this visual language. I
constructed a number of words from each prefix. These words
build on the prefix in different ways, producing many
possible narratives. This prototype visual language is very
constrained, but also has the potential to generate infinite
forms and combinations.