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)