Before an infant learns to read and write, by instinct, the infant can only go goo-goo-gaa-gaa. The infant’s first form of legible communication is probably the literal re-presentation of the environment by means of drawing or corporal mimicry. Unlike writing, drawing and corporal mimicry is not based on pre-defined codes. Why then do many of us stop or even lose these capacities as we grow and master other skills of communication, often built up of pre-defined codes?

Some might consider this as an evolution of mental skills, and seemingly useless primitive skills such as drawing are therefore « phased-out ». However, it is precisely their primitiveness that allows us to go deep into our inner selves and communicate beyond codes, to speak the Truth, in a manner of speaking.