Monday, January 29, 2007

Begin again.

Everything is subjective. More importantly is what symbolism certain characters begin to mean. I have a friend who is the elipsis (...). He has explained what that means to him, but that is not important right now. What is important is the Interabang (?!). I heard of this symbol once, and began to sketch it in every notebook I have. It is rarely used, and is generally called an Interrobang, from old english, and was represented as a single character of a question mark with a superimposed exclamation point. While I like this, I feel that the interabang punctuation serves a better purpose for that which I want.
The question mark begins. Generally when drawing it, the point is a scratched and slightly cracked heart. Out of the heart pours smoke wafting in the top region of the character. It was fire for a period of time, but the fire has died and only the smoke remains. It begins innocent and unknowing. The question without an answer. In the most general and obvous of questions being 'why?'. The interabang is cyclical.
Exclaiming follows. the top being a drop, most likely a tear with a small shine coming from an unknown light source, falling upwards from a nautical star, for direction. The point symbolizes everything. Everything is unknown, and everything is questioned.
Question Everything.
My not-so-new credo.

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