Language Landscape
When All the Tears Filter Through the Forest of Alef and Collect in My Ocean of Ye
Transfer on Japanese paper, beeswax, tissue Japanese paper collage
25 x 37 inches
2016
In this piece all of the detached Alef’s (The first letter of the Persian alphabet) was extracted from the eleven-pages letter of my father’s and set chronologically and in relationship to the line they were written on. This registration diagrams the movement of his hand in the entire letter through this marker.