Written language is composed of symbols that function as visual prompts for verbal sounds. Groups of these sounds create words, naming things, actions, ideas or concepts. All of that would be harder to decipher without syntax, where rules applied to written language create phrases and sentences. Our Anglophone language (as this example demonstrates) uses letters developed from Roman and Greek prototypes but there are many other letter or word forms in other written languages. I'm thinking of Arabic, Cryptic, Hebrew to name a few modern ones. There are also Ideograph scripts such as Chinese and Japanese and many more variations in how concepts and language are recorded visually on a surface throughout the modern and ancient world. In this print I've adopted symbols, collating them to mimic a visual language as cuts and graphic marks resembling letters or ideograms but resisting interpretation.
