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(universally) Readable Text: Book from the Ground

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In his 2003 Artist Book, Book from the Ground, Xu Bing creates a novel solely told through symbols, emojis, and icons. He explores the idea of images as a universal language, drawing inspiration from flight safety brochures and airports as places of intense cross-cultural contact. The emerging universal communication system, images require no language to interpret; however, they do require a certain cultural understanding to correctly interpret the information depicted. My reading of Xu Bing's Book from the Ground, yours, and Sarah's might be drastically different. Emoji use also demonstrates the fascinating relationship of denotation to connotation--any Millennial will describe the Information Desk Lady 

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