A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Quote of Groucho Marx depicted in Sign language

From my series Speechless with children

Where the lack of command of a language is often a barrier between people, sign language neutralizes these differences. Each of the children portrayed depicts a word in sign language. On their own these words and photographs do not have a meaning, but together, they form a context: a certain ordering of the photographs produces a sentence or a proverb. Even in our language a series of proverbs have become established of which few people know the real origin. Who knows, for instance, that “Unknown, unloved” is of Indonesian origin? There are few arts which, like photography (which ...