Source: www.speakup.com.br
Language level: Advanced
Language level: Advanced
Standard: American accent
Speaker: Chuck Rolando
THE ART OF LANGUAGE
IF Mark Wagner specialises in breaking down dollar bills, then Sono Osato does the same thing with old typewriters and adding machines.
Sono Osato
(Standard American English)
There’s and underlying inspiration – I wouldn’t say so much a theme, but definitely an underlying inspiration – which has to do with the origins of writing. And I have been interested in that for a very long time, about how objects, especially old objects that have been beaten up and thrown away, and you pull them back out again, how their shape implies some kind of a sound, and it goes back to the early instincts, the human instinct of writing and language, that a picture, in some cases of a real thing, eventually became a letter, which became a sound which became an idea. So it’s that relationship between objects and thought and writing. So that is part of the inspiration. And I start out almost kind of thinking of text, so it’s a combination of that and then topography, human history, how it moves across land and water, so I’m combining both things: one is the tableau of a written text and the other is the tableau…of a natural surface, such as the surface of the ocean or a river, or mountains or that, and I put the two of them together.
