The Arrival
At 5:30 am the plaza outside the San Cristóbal bus station is quiet other than the sound of birds, crickets and the occasional distant motor, as an unseen vehicle turns onto an unknown road. These streets are still wet with the remains of an earlier rain and the smell of the damp mixes with [...]
Preamble
This was originally part of a research thesis I had started that was to look specifically at image and identity in the Zapatista Organisation. Since that time the thesis had passed through a number of iterations and was concluded with something a little different. The original reason for changing the subject emphasis was based on, [...]
When communicating issues of social justice, there exists a significant space for the inclusion of Art as a form of indirect communication, as a compliment to the traditional uses of language, and as a medium for specifically conveying emotion and creating empathy. It is an opportunity to reach beyond the traditional use of rhetoric as a methodology for communicating emotion.
It is generally accepted that language is the traditional domain of communication, whether that be through the use of words or signs. “By means of language we can conceive the intangible, incorporeal things we call our ideas, and the equally inostensible elements of our perceptual world we call fact.” (Langer 21)