A generationAt some point, the letter disappeared. At some point, the first text message arrived. It contained only small pictures, colorful-shaped garbage, which at first glance looked like plastic garbage washed by a winter storm on the shore of the beach. At first glance, it turned out to be a carefully choreographed message: a running figure, a train, a dust cloud, a clock, a shrugging figure, a pile of dung-meaning this: Sorry, although I ran, I still missed the train , I’m sorry, I can do this now and stop doing nothing.
If you want to understand how this iconic transformation in daily communication occurred, replacing letters completely with pictures, you have to look back at history, go back to Rome in the late 16th century, and return to the world of inventions by the people with the most important collections picture. This person calls himself Cesare Ripa and is not an artist. He is a cook. Surprisingly, very little is known about him—it’s just that, in addition to his actual work at the court of Cardinal Salviati, in his night and free time, he also created a completely crazy Works, a dictionary that he can represent, the whole world wants. For every imaginable phenomenon-morning, anger, various forms of love, Sardinia, faith, confusion, melancholy-Lipa wanted to create an allegory that everyone can read and understand: using hundreds of symbolisms The way to understand and describe the image of the world.
