Choose your words carefully

Choose Your Words Carefully reflects on a time when one could not speak openly. People spoke in circles, in hints and references—never naming, never pointing directly. “They did this,” “he said that”—a vocabulary built on avoidance. In that silence, meaning began to dissolve. When we take the context out of text, what remains is emptiness—just form without life.

Through these works, the artist proposes a satirical idea: if our speech has become so censored, perhaps we need a new language altogether—a language of nothingness. The symbols and characters in these pieces are the imagined script of that language. They belong to a world where expression has been polished, purified, and made safe to the point of disappearance.

The works in this body of art present the characters and symbols proposed by the artist as part of this developing script. If we have already accepted the language of censorship as the language of our time, then perhaps it deserves its own written form—a script for silence. This series shares the early developments of that script, one that mirrors the boundaries we now speak within.

It stands as both a warning and a reflection: that when language is protected too carefully, it loses its ability to say anything at all.