It is probably an exaggerated motto, but a word can change the way we perceive reality around us. Language can model my thoughts. I love to remember my mother mostly in Catalan, and anything expressed in Catalan — and also in Valencian — tends to evoke memories.
I deal with my public in Spanish and develop my creative concepts by applying word frameworks conceived in English. Certainly, I am also beginning to feel that language becomes a space of confronting identities in a world where identity becomes mixed and fluid.
Your post brings microscopic and local evidence that words change our worlds. A lot to think about, a lot to consider, and also a lot to care for.
To care for words. For language. To dare to graffiti the wall of the market with ours, on our terms, the wall others built to define the world.
That's why we need more guajes, more nens, more xiquets, more kids. More people who understand that a word doesn't change the world, but it does change who gets to live in it. And maybe the micro is how we see the macro, from our own corner of the street.
It is probably an exaggerated motto, but a word can change the way we perceive reality around us. Language can model my thoughts. I love to remember my mother mostly in Catalan, and anything expressed in Catalan — and also in Valencian — tends to evoke memories.
I deal with my public in Spanish and develop my creative concepts by applying word frameworks conceived in English. Certainly, I am also beginning to feel that language becomes a space of confronting identities in a world where identity becomes mixed and fluid.
Your post brings microscopic and local evidence that words change our worlds. A lot to think about, a lot to consider, and also a lot to care for.
Antonio Monerris Tormo
To care for words. For language. To dare to graffiti the wall of the market with ours, on our terms, the wall others built to define the world.
That's why we need more guajes, more nens, more xiquets, more kids. More people who understand that a word doesn't change the world, but it does change who gets to live in it. And maybe the micro is how we see the macro, from our own corner of the street.
Meet you at the plaza, Antonio. Thank you.