The Power of Imagery
This is a shopping list for groceries, penned by an artist named di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, first name Michelangelo.
Those buying and preparing his foods were not literate … what better way to empower them than to include an image beside the words describing the food? Or to help them learn the words that describe the images?
This is what we must all try and do with our speech: add in powerful word pictures so others can literally see what we are saying!