C. Vreeland

1109 Olde Hinge Way

Snellville,GA 30078

404-358-3186
  

      
                          clarkvreeland@hotmail.com

                              http://www.musicfreedom.com/vreeland



The Artificial Language Movement has met with failures and successes over the past three centuries of its recorded history. Most of this history is rather academic since no artificial language has ever actually taken root in society. The main direction of research and study has been one dealing with phonics, syllables, and an amalgamation of existing spoken tongues, based on various rationale. Linguistics, as a discipline, has much inspirational data to lend to Artificial Language development, as does the emerging field of Identity Theory. And both are related to it and indispensable. But when it comes to actual success in the field of society, the most universal systems of communication are still the sign languages used by the hearing impaired.     I believe that is because signing is based on human gesture. And gesture can be translated into symbols. My work is the creation of universal symbols, based on gestures, delivering perhaps, more precise overall meaning to an already existing tongues.

The end product of the symbol or glyph must be arrived at by system of research, action, and editing. Research of picture languages throughout history is extensive and time consuming, especially considering the latest discoveries concerning Mayan hieroglyphics and the possible emergence of universal symbolism in some "gang tagging".    Asian picture languages, which are based more on gesture, also present a huge opportunity for researching the formation of conceptual thought in phonetic language systems. Making the art and editing it into symbols simple enough for humans to experiment with is my work .

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