
AN ARTIST FINDS A SIMPLE, CLEVER WAY TO CREATE VISIBLE LANGUAGE
by Edward M. Gómez
In the field known as communications design and also among linguists who study how languages are used and expressed in written form, the term “visible language” refers to language as a system of communication using visual elements.
With this notion more broadly in mind, lately we’ve been interested not only in how certain artists literally use written language in the paintings, drawings, or other kinds of works they produce as integral parts of such creations but also in the ways in which such art forms may be seen as incorporating examples of visible language.

Last year, brutjournal introduced the work of the New York-based artist Susan Spangenberg (Instagram: @straitjacketsusan), whom we described as “someone who has spent much of her life on a healing path in response to early-childhood traumatic experiences.”
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