IDEA | INTERVIEW

In life, language often fails us. In comedy, language can mislead and surprise us. Language, as a topic, permeates a lot of art. It seems a common practice for every artist to, at one stage or another, comment on language’s inability to express the totality of their meaning, experience, emotion, and therefore, leave them rather unarmed in the daily war they wage against universal meaning.

But perhaps the division between our conscious internal experience and the outside world is a necessary one. We look at the colour blue and we wonder if this is the same blue that our friend perceives. Or is it just the mere fact that we both use the same word, the same sound to describe two entirely different appearances in consciousness. We can’t know for sure. And the moment that we do, art may no longer have purpose.