Sound piece for W139 exhibition Architectures of Noise -28 July-15 August 2021 with Arefeh Riahi.
Text:
With our left hand we take a marker and write a sentence in our mother tongue, English.
[With our right hand we take a marker and write a sentence in our mother tongue, Farsi].
The movement of our hand is left to right. 
[The movement of our hand is right to left]. 
Words flow on the smooth transparent surface of the window, the sun casting glare between adverbs and conjunctions.
Our hands move in syncopation, their movements fluid, even as each character hesitates slightly as it reveals.
The English sentence moves from left to right as the Farsi moves from right to left on the same shining window. 
Arms spread as wide as their length allows, our hands move towards each other as readable shapes leave tracks on the pane.
Fingers holding the markers with ambidextrous precarity move towards each other slowly as meaning unfurls and collides with itself.
We only half-trust our own translation.
Aware of the borders between words, phonemes, letters, between arms, hands and windows, we stubbornly practice the difference between waiting and not waiting. 
Sometimes our right hand bumps our left as each complete the thought. Those last words touch tails together, a palindrome, a bilingual ouroboros, eating its simple utterance. Neither cyclic nor linear they feel as “Passages to elsewheres.”

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