Yinxue Lucy Zou
Graphic designer & Teaching artist
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Speechless Narrative
Poster / Research Poster
2025
Digital collage, typography
Keywords: mixed-script / glitch / bilingual type
Speechless Narrative treats “speechlessness” as a method of storytelling—not the absence of language, but a condition in which language loses its stable direction. Text is fragmented, compressed, obscured, and pixelated, shifting between readable information and pure visual texture. Within a grid-like system, the work reorders these fragments into a state between reading and looking. It holds tension between structure and disruption: rules offer a frame, while glitches and ruptures create rhythm and breath. As clarity collapses into noise, viewers move through cycles of recognition and release, sensing meaning as something assembled, misread, and reassembled. Here, silence becomes material—dense, lingering, and emotionally legible even when it cannot be fully said.