Tired Tongues is a replacement-animated film consisting of over five hundred individual Pollack Flavor Co. stickers originally found in a dumpster and re-purposed as animation “frames.” All the lettering was hand-drawn using a light table and traditional straight-ahead technique. Based on two tankas (a Japanese poetic form) written by David Yockel Jr. on the theme of self-censorship, the film follows the poem through Brooklyn, NY where the words became a temporary part of the landscape, removed after each photo was taken.