Nüshu was one of the first languages I came across in my research when I was trying to find unusual languages, and I found it incredibly interesting. The history behind it was incredible and amazing. It is a language only for women, created by women for women.
In China for centuries women were banned from learning how to read and write. Women rebelled and decided to create their own language. The took the characters used in Mandarin and Cantonese and made it their own with their own meaning. The letterforms are much slimmer and more delicate. They are extremely beautiful. I decided Nüshu was the language I had to use because I wasn’t just inspired by the beauty of the letterforms but the beautiful history behind it.
One quote I discovered was beautiful and truly inspiring and progressed my project where ideas started to solidify and come together. It was ‘musical notes flying along on the wind’ and was said by Tan Dun, it brought the idea of music and who creates music and that linking to location where my final piece would be situated.