Hej there! My name is Nicole. I came to AI through Scandinavian silent movie, not computer science. Sounds funny? Over twenty years ago, that corpus confronted me with a serious semiotic question I couldn't let go of: where does meaning break down between image and language, and what fills the gap? That was an aesthetic problem sitting at the intersection of linguistics and psychology then. With multimodal AI models, it has become an urgent one. So I still ask it.