The airline codes function as a system of ciphers that rely on being universally decipherable. They could be understood as a new world language. A language of global movement. Everyday. Almost everywhere.
We are initiates. Globalisation demands literacy in new languages- part alphabet/part word/part sign/ part code. Negotiations beyond the interfaces of cultures we visit or receive requires continual expansion of this literacy and understanding into a different context, even to read a street sign.
So here we observe these small packages arranged on an imagined .And let’s consider the promise of movement, the lure of exchange, the complexity of the emergent globalised world. Jane Keech
Exhibited at Grey Area, Melbourne