My OperaMy TYPOGRAPHY Project
Wednesday, August 19, 2009 8:04:35 AM
“Transparency” within oneself is the expression of what each individual wants and what he or she does. Many a time our behavioral characteristics are illustrated through it, though I believe only the soul can ascribe its own behavioral characteristics. “Distance” – can transparency be compatible with this? Then why are we so vocal about transparency? If one can’t really keep the distance then what is the necessity of the existence of words like ‘private’, ‘solitary’? I like to keep distance, verily depending on case to case; likewise a heavy truck maintains a written warning at its back ‘Keep a distance of 100 yds’. Does the truck write it for its own safety? Verily Not. I like to ascribe myself silently behind the closed doors. Although I know there is no scarcity of people to think about me or who interfere me. When we become intimate with people, friends (!!?!) or our loving ones, only then the success of transparency is achieved. Although water is transparent, its ‘purity’ is the prime concern. Therefore to achieve the pure transparency one has to have the ‘intimacy’ surpassing the distance. I have therefore presented myself in transparency, but I cannot be understood if one doesn’t come close to me. Do I talk much? It doesn’t appear to me so. I laugh a little more, and a bit more outraged – one is complementary to other. I think laugh and anger both are my constants. Some days I laugh more, some days I get anger more.
‘Beauty’? Its explanation is relative; the definition of beauty is different to individuals. Only one thing can be said, “beauty is just beautiful, can this be criticized?” Am I good or bad is not known to me, but I am not harmful. That is why I give priority to purity within transparency. For example, a pond may be quite transparent but do we really drink from it? We want to blend with the pond’s water but we don’t trust the water; what is the benefit of such transparency? In my case one thing occurs quite perfectly – whenever I become transparent almost everybody understands me reverse, likewise we remember more the wicked side of the people. Is it really fair? When we exceed the distance through deep feelings and intimacy then we will realize both the noble and evil side of a person, but I will greet only the decent and respectable side.
This is what I have tried to represent in this typographic project. I have resembled myself by my name in Bengali and by choosing every letter of my name in transparent material but reversed manner, which at a first glance means nothing or difficult to understand. But if someone looks with care and intimacy from different angles one can easily see the full reflection of my name (i.e. me) on a mirror beneath it – ‘Maliha’ in Bengali, in perfect order to understand and read very easily.
The Korean symbol ‘Yin Yan’ half of which is constructed by white color and other half by black to resemble good and evil in every creation inspired me to project shadows of both white and black color behind the letters of my name on the mirror; as if, as a whole the shadows of my name project both the righteous and wicked side of myself on a mirror.
‘Beauty’? Its explanation is relative; the definition of beauty is different to individuals. Only one thing can be said, “beauty is just beautiful, can this be criticized?” Am I good or bad is not known to me, but I am not harmful. That is why I give priority to purity within transparency. For example, a pond may be quite transparent but do we really drink from it? We want to blend with the pond’s water but we don’t trust the water; what is the benefit of such transparency? In my case one thing occurs quite perfectly – whenever I become transparent almost everybody understands me reverse, likewise we remember more the wicked side of the people. Is it really fair? When we exceed the distance through deep feelings and intimacy then we will realize both the noble and evil side of a person, but I will greet only the decent and respectable side.
This is what I have tried to represent in this typographic project. I have resembled myself by my name in Bengali and by choosing every letter of my name in transparent material but reversed manner, which at a first glance means nothing or difficult to understand. But if someone looks with care and intimacy from different angles one can easily see the full reflection of my name (i.e. me) on a mirror beneath it – ‘Maliha’ in Bengali, in perfect order to understand and read very easily.
The Korean symbol ‘Yin Yan’ half of which is constructed by white color and other half by black to resemble good and evil in every creation inspired me to project shadows of both white and black color behind the letters of my name on the mirror; as if, as a whole the shadows of my name project both the righteous and wicked side of myself on a mirror.
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