Emoji fool is part of a series of artworks dedicated to Emojis (the word emoji comes from Japanese e (絵, "picture") + moji (文字, "character"). Originating on Japanese mobile phones in 1997, emoji became increasingly popular worldwide in the 2010s after being added to several mobile operating systems. We all use them every day to replace our facial expressions on social networks. They are incontrovertibly the world’s first truly universal form of communication, and even “the new universal language”.
