Tanya George

Tanya George
Glottosaurus, 2024
Nickel plated 304 stainless steel
127 x 61 cm | 50 x 24 in
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As a type designer, Tanya George has always been fascinated with metal types. Since Letterpress was quite inaccessible, George started working with signages and eventually conceptualised a mobile deepening her...
As a type designer, Tanya George has always been fascinated with metal types. Since Letterpress was quite inaccessible, George started working with signages and eventually conceptualised a mobile deepening her fondness of Calder designs and its playfulness.
The mobile structure, titled 'Glottosaurus', became a way to express the many languages Tanya speaks and the varying levels of familiarity and fluency she has with them. The three scripts used in the work are Latin, Devanagari and Malayalam taken from her fluency in English, French, Konkani, Hindi, Marathi and Malayalam. She used the word ‘tongue’, ज़ुबान, നാക്ക് (naaku) as a unifying feature that produced these sounds across all the languages. The letters extruding at the 14 levels of the mobile represent the many different sites in the mouth exerted for articulation, which are - guttural, palatal, retroflex, dental, and labial.
The mobile structure, titled 'Glottosaurus', became a way to express the many languages Tanya speaks and the varying levels of familiarity and fluency she has with them. The three scripts used in the work are Latin, Devanagari and Malayalam taken from her fluency in English, French, Konkani, Hindi, Marathi and Malayalam. She used the word ‘tongue’, ज़ुबान, നാക്ക് (naaku) as a unifying feature that produced these sounds across all the languages. The letters extruding at the 14 levels of the mobile represent the many different sites in the mouth exerted for articulation, which are - guttural, palatal, retroflex, dental, and labial.
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