A woven painting that looks like a depiction of audio frequency spikes in sound recordings or recorded music. Orange, black, yellow an green-ish.

Isabel Seiffert

Symbolic and fictional language systems

<p>And in moments of total darkness, when even this structure dissolves, there persists somewhere in the limbic basement of the brain the rhythm of language, its cadence and flow, the dialect of pure sound we babbled as infants and grunted to one another on the savannah before symbols fell from the sky.</p>

Winona Stevenson, Calling Badger and the Symbols of the Spirit Language

John Ciardi

<p>the word Zungen also suggests a link between language and the body, or between sound and its physical production</p>