Pyramids and Pie Charts

Pyramids and Pie Charts

Pyramids and pie charts appear throughout contemporary culture as visual tools for organizing information, authority, and value. The pyramid functions as a symbol of hierarchy, suggesting systems of power, rank, and institutional control, while the pie chart presents a vision of the world divided into measurable categories and percentages. Although often perceived as neutral diagrams, both forms operate as cultural signs that shape how we understand social, economic, and political realities. In my work, these familiar graphic structures become subjects in themselves; visual languages that reveal the hidden systems, assumptions, and infrastructures through which meaning is produced and communicated.