Language Landscape
When All the Tears Filter Through the Forest of Alef and Collect in My Ocean of Ye- Detail
Transfer on Japanese paper, collage, beeswax
25 x 37 inches
2017
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.