Visible Language

A contemporary designer pays homage to the ancient codex designers or Tlacuilo. “Tale of the origin” is a Mesoamerican science-religion story of the beginning and end of life. The myth is presented first as a Spanish language artist’s book in a documentary style. Key moments and characters in the myth are symbolically visualized. This document is then analyzed and interpreted using rhetoric as a subtext or key to understanding the ideas of the myth as well as the visual structure of the unfolding story and book. Yet another subtext translates the myth into English.

September 1998  ·  issue 32.3