My friends often complain about communication: they find it hard to understand what others mean, and blame it on words not being written or spoken clearly. But words are only part of communication.
Peter F. Drucker described interpersonal communication as a process in which a sender and a receiver exchange messages through internal carriers — speech, body movement — and external ones, such as letters and new media. Communication is shaped by many media at once.
Random Periods uses different media to explore the misunderstandings that arise between people in everyday conversation through these carriers. A red dot runs through the whole project. It stands for a full stop, the end of a sentence: the dots divide the work into sentences, and the red asks the viewer to look and think carefully.
Part I is a series of still photographs of everyday objects, each covered with scattered red dots that confuse the eye and keep familiar symbols from being read at a glance. Part II is an interactive projection about the senses and communication. Through image, sound, touch points and body movement it builds a new way of communicating, stressing sight, touch and hearing — and the fact that language is not the only medium through which we understand one another.
