Non-linear writing lab

Project logs.

I started this project with the intention of designing a non-linear visual language. At its core was a desire to acknowledge two things: that all communication comes from a subjective point of view (and owning that can invite more honesty and humility) and that nothing exists in isolation, everything only takes shape in relation to something else.

I imagined the self and the “other” (people, events, objects…) as rings orbiting one another, at varying distances and angles, said orbits being shaped by subjective perceived time, emotion, and context.

My hope was that this diagrammatic approach could make visible the personal frameworks behind how we build meaning and express perception, and in doing so provide the means to challenge our assumptions.

But as I tried to map my own point of view, I found myself questioning how I perceive in the first place. The more I worked, the clearer it became that this “language” wasn’t something to complete. Instead, the process itself of self-interrogation became the most valuable part.

So, the project shifted. It’s no longer about completing a system, it’s about using the act of building it as a framework to examine how we see, relate, connect, and create meaning.