Sounds have a funny way of being untranslatable. This project aims to highlight the differences in onomatopoeias across different languages.

Origins Alphabet is an exploration into mankind’s very first written alphabet. Taking inspiration from Ancient Egyptian, Chinese and Arabic.

Thought is free to wonder unbounded. In verbal expression it becomes cemented. In English, we speak about language and speech largely through the metaphor of the container. We put thoughts INTO words and we get information OUT OF books. This project attempts to show that thought does not equal language - a complex symbiotic relationship exists between the two.

We talk about crime through multiple metaphors. Crime can spread through communities or prey on neighborhoods. Exposure to a single metaphorical lens has been shown to possibly influence an individual's opinion of and solution to crime. Through a visceral and grabbing installation, the different approaches to talking about crime will be illuminated and contrasted.

So, does talking about inanimate objects as if they were masculine or feminine lead people to think of them as masculine or feminine? Preliminary evidence suggests it may.