have a thought or a question and click to draw a card
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I began with the sounds of bush babies, translated observed vocalization patterns into visual symbols, and constructed a system of communication in which sound and emotion take precedence over rational meaning. These symbols, formed through drawing and listening, form the basis of the emotional poetic language. This initial system was later expanded into a deck of oracle cards.
Rather than anthropomorphize the bush baby’s language, I intentionally preserved its strangeness and unknowability. I listen, inferring the emotional texture of the calls, resisting the urge to translate them. Designing Oracle allows me to evoke a "body sense" and "emotional memory" through ambiguous symbols and rhythm-based poetry. These forms don’t ask for interpretation but rather stimulate the senses.
Each card can be drawn, held, spoken aloud, meditated upon, or paired with the included guide. This slow physical interaction encourages personal responses, emotional openness, and the creation of subjective meaning. Rather than decoding a fixed message from the designer, the user is engaging in an empathetic relationship with a speculative, non-human communication system.
The project reflects a shift from general language to situated knowledge and sensory understanding. By integrating somatic concerns and non-human reference points, the work explores how design can maintain ambiguity and support non-linear, affective ways of knowing. This deck isn’t about understanding the bush baby; it’s about sensing with it, coexisting in emotional and symbolic space to build resonance.