I thought it would be interesting to use doublespeak to tell a story and began by doing a small brain dump where I tried to deliberately misunderstand my own thoughts and misrepresent them to create confusion. This process was very difficult and I quickly found myself missing the point and having paralysis in analysis, I was thinking too hard.

This process gave me a revelation, I was recounting my earliest memory and trying to recontextualise it, this is the basic narrative

It was 2002, I was 4 years old, the football world cup was on tv,

I was playing with my lego, two pieces were stuck together so tightly that I couldn’t separate them, half blocks too so they were really stuck.

I spent a while trying to pull them apart but I couldn’t, I put the pieces in my mouth and pulled at them with my hand, but immediately, I knew something was wrong,

cat piss

the cat used my lego box as a litter box.

I tried to illustrate this narrative using religious connotations, to prescribe higher importance to the characters, I turned it into a battle between good and evil, the boy is an entity creating a world, the cat is a beast who roams freely without law, the beast sabotaged my blocks of creation and was banished outside by my mum. I liked this narrative and imagery and wanted to create a more polished outcome but I knew I was only seeing the tip of the iceberg, the story I created felt like a parable.

I began thinking about miscommunication from a new perspective “Miscommunication sensationalizing otherwise simple narratives” the concept of inflated language that was used to define doublespeak began to dominate my mind.