I am fascinated by the idea of visual languages that arise as generative grammars from an initial set of visual icons. There is a rough analogy to the way that natural languages can be described as generative grammars according to Chompskyan theory.
To give a simple example, here is the visual symbol for Mars:
This is can be used to represent “male”.
And here is the visual symbol for Venus:
This is can be used to represent “female”.
We can generatively combine these, to obtain a visual symbol containing both “male” and “female” parts:
This can be used to represent “hermaphrodite”.
Finally, we can create a grammatical construct that consists of two males dominating a single female, to form a “devil’s triangle”:
This can be used to represent Brett Kavanaugh.