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Archipelogos is a series of hand-embroidered textile veils that transform fragments from Farid al-Din Attar’s Conference of the Birds into a dispersed landscape of language. Rather than transcribing the poem, the work extracts six short passages, removes them from their original context, and recomposes them into a new continuous text — a narrative that exists only when the veils are placed side by side. Separated in space, these fragments no longer function as linear reading. They become islands of language, suspended surfaces where meaning must be navigated rather than received. The embroidered lines follow undulating trajectories, echoing the curvature of waves; words bend, break, and rejoin, turning writing into movement rather than message.

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Each veil operates simultaneously as surface, threshold, and interruption. The text is not an illustration but a material presence — a geography of language in which reading becomes a form of orientation. What was once a poem becomes topography: an archipelago of meanings distributed across space, requiring the viewer to reconstruct continuity through memory rather than sight.

Placed together, the veils reveal a single rewritten passage. Installed apart, they propose a different mode of narrative — one that unfolds through distance, dispersion, and delay. Archipelogos does not ask what the poem says, but how meaning behaves when fractured: how a story persists not through coherence, but through the act of searching.

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In this series, fragmentation is not loss but method. The work shifts the poem from voice to terrain, from transmission to navigation. Nothing is missing; it is simply elsewhere.

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