Glottosaurus

I have always been fascinated with metal types. Since Letterpress was quite inaccessible, I started working with signages and eventually conceptualised a mobile deepening my fondness of Calder designs and its playfulness. The mobile structure, titled 'Glottosaurus', became a way to express the many languages I speak and the varying levels of familiarity and fluency I has with them. The three scripts used in the work are Latin, Devanagari and Malayalam. I used the word ‘tongue’, ज़ुबान(zubaan), 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.