So, this week in class we focused a lot on the art of modern language manipulation. Although it was charity week and things were often thrown off in class because of it, I feel like the material that we did incorporate were very valuable. Remember how we had the assignment of finding an example of how modern language manipulation? Yes?!?! well, I chose this as my piece. I liked it because it was very simple, yet it had a lot of meaning behind it. Not only did the artist manipulate the language by using the clique phrase of, "I'm fine" when people really aren't fine, but he/ she also manipulated the words themselves. I found the fact that when you turn the quote completely upside down it says something completely different very interesting. It helps to symbolize that deeper meaning and show how we manipulate language to make us seem 'fine'. In my blog from last week, I talked about how we manipulated language all of the time throughout our everyday life without even knowing it. Although this example is a little more noticeable when you are talking that you are not actually saying what you are meaning to say, we do and use this phrase all of the time and then act like nothing is wrong when someone replies with this phrase. This cognitive decision is one that leaves me thinking how language manipulation really works. How do we allow it to get all the way to our heads and control us into thinking that the manipulated language is correct.
I like how you interpreted this piece of art as a linguistic symbol of a deeper meaning. In addition, I find this image interesting because it implicitly represents our innate selective perception. For example, the first time I viewed the image on the left, I completely ignored the two dots on the bottom, which translated to parts of the letter "i" in the image on the right.
ReplyDeleteI really like this post, and the artwork is really neat too. I wrote a similar piece for my blog, funnily enough, and I definitely agree with your points. I think it's really interesting that we tend to lie about our feelings, which is really telling about our society and morals.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely love this post Samantha. I love how you used artwork to symbolize language manipulation and to show the true meaning of a hidden meaning. There have been lots of times where I have said i'm fine to simply get someone to leave me alone. Great post 10/10.
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