Student Photographer
Bachelor of Design (Visual Communication)
Language, both orally and textually are formative in shaping thinking and creativity at an individual level within cultures and communities. Chinese calligraphic brushstrokes cojoin and release forests of unique idiomatic expression. Inner Mongolians freely apply their own language alongside practising Chinese and some English in daily life. My photography of publicly displayed Chinese calligraphy, the official formal language of Inner Mongolia, provides an entry point to a culture revealing a language of great wit and learned observation capable of rendering a sophisticated, imaginative narrative in a single character or engendering different, subtle and clever tertiary meanings as characters are set in relation one to another.
