Day after day we use language in all kinds of situations. We often notice that words alone can
rarely express, what happens, what we feel, what we think, what we really want to say.We are living at a time which makes it hard for us to use language in a genuine way.
Words are often meant to justify our own thoughts or behavior, exercise power, manipulate.
On the one hand we don’t have any trust in advertising, politics, the economy; on the other
hand we are used to deception and often have problems with just being what we really are.
If we tear off our masks
That terrify ourselves and others
To death
“Grenzen im Strom”, Tieto & Taitto, 2013
Being a German who has lived in Finland for many years, I have a particular approach to
cultural and linguistic peculiarities of both countries. In particular I am fascinated by the
topic frontiers, not only in the sense of things which can/can’t be said, but also in the sense
of our existence as (human)beings.
I think instead of decorating things and phenomena by means of words, we should rather
strive after stripping our language. Doing so we might have better chances to not only
carefully approach things which are hard to express, but also a new form of existence,
freed from pressures and habits of our everyday lives.
If we tear off our masks
We’ll unveil faces
That awake us and others
To life
“Grenzen im Strom”, Tieto & Taitto, 2013
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