My Art – Page 2 – Noa Yaari

How do you cite a caption with an emoji?

Using an Emoji in a Caption of a Painting

I recently started to use an emoji of a book in the captions of my paintings for my art project at the Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies at the University of Toronto, titled “Word and Image Relationships at the CRRS Library.” Traditionally, we see images and captions as counterparts, where the image provides aContinue reading “Using an Emoji in a Caption of a Painting”

How to Choose an Image for an Invitation

The following isn’t an answer for the question positioned above, but rather several thoughts about the use of both words and images in a document. I’ll analyze an invitation that I recently prepared to my upcoming hands-on workshop at the Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies at York University. The team at the Centre offered improvementsContinue reading “How to Choose an Image for an Invitation”

Art-based Knowledge Mobilization

I’m currently participating in a course in Knowledge Mobilization (KMb) at York University, which is run in collaboration with the University of Winnipeg and Memorial University. Titled MobilizeU, it’s excellent. One of the things I appreciate most in it is the opportunity to delve into “Art-based knowledge mobilization” (ABKM) and its potential to engage diverseContinue reading “Art-based Knowledge Mobilization”

Lighter

Noa Yaari, Lighter, 2005. Mixed media. Tel Aviv.

Multiform Grammar: The Ripple Effect

Combinations of words and images have a ripple effect that includes attracting attention to themselves, retaining that attention, penetrating to and residing in people’s long-term memory, and stimulating the echoing of the stored information. Combinations of words and images are, therefore, seeds that often grow into a culture. This ripple effect is a result ofContinue reading “Multiform Grammar: The Ripple Effect”

Repetition and Variation

Every combination of words and images includes both repetition and variation. For example, when we use a letter, symbol, word, or phrase more than once, or when shapes and colours reappear. Some of the repetitions result from an echo between the words and the images, which may express different kinds – as well as degreesContinue reading “Repetition and Variation”

Multiform Grammar: Exploring Communication through a New Lens

Noa Yaari, CRRS 5/30 (detail), 2019. Mixed media. 21 x 28 cm. Toronto The spaces and times between words and images within a single sequence are a tool with which we can develop effective and creative communication skills. This is due to the resistance of these gaps or “spacetimes” to evaluate the communication through “rightContinue reading “Multiform Grammar: Exploring Communication through a New Lens”

Utilizing Multiform Grammar: A Hands-on Workshop for Professionals and Employees

In February, I’ll be giving hands-on workshops on multiform grammar (MFG) at the Learning Enrichment Foundation (LEF) in Toronto. The participants in these will be the professional clients and the staff at the organization. How can proficiency in MFG benefit the two groups? Before answering this question, I like to explain what “proficiency in MFG”Continue reading “Utilizing Multiform Grammar: A Hands-on Workshop for Professionals and Employees”

On Why Multiform References are an Intimate Rhetorical Device

Multiform References (MFRs) are the rhetorical devices that authors use to shift their readers’ attention between words and images to create a new, unified representation or meaning. I argue here that MFRs are an intimate rhetorical device and that, consequently, they have a significant capacity to evoke emotions among both the author and the readerContinue reading “On Why Multiform References are an Intimate Rhetorical Device”