BROKEN LANGUAGE
We are living through an increasingly complex experience, yet the language available to us no longer seems capable of naming it.
If we take art as a point of departure, its widespread incomprehension is not necessarily because it is complex or elitist, but because we have lost familiarity with other modes of knowing and other forms of language: the symbolic, the imaginal, the metaphorical, the liminal, and the intuitive.
Today, one mode of knowing—the analytical, the logical, and the instrumental—occupies almost all the available space. Yet this way of understanding the world seems to have exhausted part of its capacity to produce meaning. The "concrete" begins to break beneath our feet when we try to understand what it means to be human through analysis, calculation, and efficiency alone.
Perhaps what we call the crisis of meaning is, at its core, a crisis of interpretation: the consequence of trying to understand an increasingly complex experience through categories that are no longer adequate to name it. It is possible that part of our suffering, our impoverishment, and our sense of emptiness stem from the fracture between the complexity of experience and the poverty of the language with which we try to contain it.
The photographs were taken at the entrance to Lincoln-Marti Schools, 28800 SW 152nd Ave., Homestead, Florida, on Tuesday, December 16, 2025, at 8:30 a.m.
