Salt and Pepper looks at human emotions thru the lens of emoticons. Emoticons are combinations of punctuation marks and alphanumerics that, put in a certain order, create pictograms of human faces, mimicking offline facial expressions. Thru their extremely simplistic form, they are able to transcend language and cultures, becoming a universal way to represent deep human feelings.

 

In Salt and Pepper, the artist plays with the combination of the two punctuation marks “:” and “(“ that, depending on the order they are placed in, express either happiness or sadness. A simple permutation of two punctuation marks brings the viewer from one extrem to the other of the emotional spectrum. The neon balances monotonously between happiness and sadness, a reminder of how  delicate and ephemeral human emotions are.

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