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I am exploring language through images. This is discussed in block 1 chapters 5 & 6 of Creativity in language book. I am finding this chapter very interesting. Colours can express mood, contrating of dark and light for dramatic effect. As in literature metaphors foregrounding and deviation can be used. Symbolic knowledge can also be transmitted through pictorial rendering. Graphic imaging is one of the oldest forms of making sense of the world, before languages came to be the main concept of communication. Contemporary Art and the work of Xu Bing is particularly interesting as well as cartoon drawings and some of  Banksy's graffiti works. I just want to point out that many graffiti artists were performing very interesting works freely and without recognition in many places in our country, for example on the side of train tracks and many other sites escaping the law.

addendum -  and the graffiti artists also putting their lives at great risk.