Through globalization, the English language’s general rules are often challenged by non-native speakers. As a non-native speaker. I explore my personal identity through the kinetic typography sculpture “English.” Even as I have spent half of my life in North America, I may use broken English especially when I am nervous. In my piece, the word “English” is sliced into 26 segments and moved up and down in an unsynchronized fashion by hidden motors. As with my own broken, yet intelligible, use of the English language, the sculpture’s word is unmistakably broken into pieces, while remaining legible.

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