word ⦿ code

Remy Dean

Visual arts attempt to express something from the artist and elicit responses from the viewer. What differentiates each piece of work is the materials and languages used, and the codes conveyed.

Writing began as the drawing of sounds, visually recording those sounds that make up words that are the codes of a language — and through the understanding, or at least an interpretation, of language a meaning is arrived at.

Visual art also uses languages, such as theories of form and colour, there are codes, and through the interpretation of those codes meanings are received.

different interpretations = different meanings