Wednesday, November 17, 2010

The Visual Power Over Words


The visual setting and place in which a phrase is displayed can have significant emotional and moral implications.

Take this harmless three line poem: Associate it with this charming etched glass bias relief:

Go Gracefully, If You Can…
If you Cannot… Go As You Are
You Will Be Welcomed Just the Same!



Take the same three line poem and place this photograph of these gates above it.
What is the result? Disgust and sickness? The words are still the same but they are made to fit another reality.






Go Gracefully, If You Can…
If you Cannot…Go As You Are
You Will Be Welcomed Just the Same!







1 comment:

David Evans said...

I as sure that my grandchildren and a great many adults would not get the symboism of this gate.

It truly is a gate to hell situated in the soul of man.