Tanya Garfield
Statement:
Secrecy and the ability to translate spoken or written text into a visual language is central to this body of work. Inspired by wartime communication, my work uses Morse code to isolate messages. This work explores the contradictory nature of Morse code; a simplistic visual representation of the alphabet, used to communicate highly complex, secretive messages. The work is deceitful. To the unknowing viewer it is simply an arrangement of dots and dashes; to the trained eye it is a silent, effective way of conveying information.
