A stuttering billboard with a global message. In New York City! 🗣️🩵
What does it mean to ‘create time’? Stuttering can open up space—and time—to find reflection, possibility and potential in repetitions, prolongations and pauses, making room for deep listening and connection.
ALT A photo of a billboard on a New York City building. Three lines of black text appear on a light seafoam green background: ‘La tartamudez nos ofrece tiempo, 口吃者創創創創創創創創創創創造時間, Stuttering can create time.’ The text is in a sans serif typeface organized in three straight lines within the top half of the composition. The bottom half of the composition is empty emphasising a sense of pauses, silences and expectations. The text is all lowercase and lacks punctuation, giving a casual and informal almost text message-like feel. Each line of text represents a form of stuttered speech: blocks, repetitions and prolongations. The first line in Spanish translates to “Stuttering offers us time.” The space between “us” and “time” represents a block. The second line in Chinese translates to “People who stutter create time.” The first characters in the Chinese word for “create” are repeated. In the third line in English the “s” in “stuttering” is stretched horizontally to represent prolonged sound.