Origin of Wor(l)ds, 2023
Embroidery on silk, artist’s hair, charcoal frame · 32 × 25 cm
A unique geometric figure — the Monogram of the Alphabet, whose tradition dates back to Renaissance artists seeking a divine proportion in Roman letters — whose intersections of circles, squares, and diagonals generate all the letters of the Latin alphabet and all numbers. The mother cell of human language: from this single form emerge all words ever written, all worlds ever imagined. Embroidered on silk with her own hair, the artist inscribes herself into this universal matrix — as with blood in Tetraktys, the body becomes material of inclusion in fundamental structures. The charcoal frame — cosmic and elemental matter — frames an infrastructure of possible language.
This work condenses a question that runs through all practice: what if the structures that organize human language were the same as those that organize cosmic matter? The shift of the reference system operates here at the scale of the sign — the word and the world share the same original geometry. Subject and object are one and the same: the body that embroiders is itself made of the same matter as what it traces.