An Emoji Story
I chose the story as much for simplicity of telling as for ease of visual representation. I knew the range of emoticons would be restricted so I wanted something that would make for an interesting story but would not involve too much nuance. While writing, I quickly found myself resorting to a system used in Chinese, that of roots or radicals. This was a function of a limited number of emoticons to work with and also of the difficulty in expressing complex concepts as images. I have studied Chinese so…read more