{"id":657,"date":"2025-07-13T16:59:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T16:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.katelynfreese.art\/?page_id=657"},"modified":"2025-12-23T15:46:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T15:46:31","slug":"transforming-language","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.katelynfreese.art\/?page_id=657","title":{"rendered":"Transforming Language"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Untitled<\/em>, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-tertiary-background-color has-background\">Made of 4 pounds of paraffin wax, <em>Untitled<\/em> explores the foundations of language and distorts them. The wax letters resemble children&#8217;s fridge magnet toys, which are used to teach children language. These letters were piled together and melted, distorting their recognizability and potential usefulness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1954\" src=\"https:\/\/www.katelynfreese.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Freese_Project2.2_Art3005-copy-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.katelynfreese.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Freese_Project2.2_Art3005-copy-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.katelynfreese.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Freese_Project2.2_Art3005-copy-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.katelynfreese.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Freese_Project2.2_Art3005-copy-768x586.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.katelynfreese.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Freese_Project2.2_Art3005-copy-1536x1172.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.katelynfreese.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Freese_Project2.2_Art3005-copy-2048x1563.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Untitled<\/em>, 2025, paraffin wax<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-tertiary-background-color has-background\">This work is intentionally left untitled, as I felt there was no appropriate name for my transformation of language through my distortion of typographic letterforms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1976\" src=\"https:\/\/www.katelynfreese.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Freese_Project2.1_ART3005-copy-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.katelynfreese.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Freese_Project2.1_ART3005-copy-2-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.katelynfreese.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Freese_Project2.1_ART3005-copy-2-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.katelynfreese.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Freese_Project2.1_ART3005-copy-2-768x593.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.katelynfreese.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Freese_Project2.1_ART3005-copy-2-1536x1185.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.katelynfreese.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Freese_Project2.1_ART3005-copy-2-2048x1581.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1625\" src=\"https:\/\/www.katelynfreese.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Freese_Project2_ART3005-copy-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.katelynfreese.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Freese_Project2_ART3005-copy-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.katelynfreese.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Freese_Project2_ART3005-copy-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.katelynfreese.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Freese_Project2_ART3005-copy-768x487.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.katelynfreese.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Freese_Project2_ART3005-copy-1536x975.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.katelynfreese.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Freese_Project2_ART3005-copy-2048x1300.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-a89b3969 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.katelynfreese.art\/?page_id=634\">Back to Other Work<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Untitled, 2025 Made of 4 pounds of paraffin wax, Untitled explores the foundations of language and distorts them. The wax letters resemble children&#8217;s fridge magnet toys, which are used to teach children language. These letters were piled together and melted, distorting their recognizability and potential usefulness. 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