P001 → On the Forgetting of Language
On the Forgetting of Language, 2026. Ceramic, glaze, custom-made steel hardware, approximate place of articulation, print, pins, archival mulberry tape. Variable dimensions.
On the Forgetting of Language, 2026. Installation View.
On the Forgetting of Language, 2026. Installation View.
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nspired by the process of learning English and teaching Spanish from/to my partner and the attention we started paying to the placement of our tongue in our mouth. Many nights while he was reading aloud the books I recommended, I'd tease him about his pronunciation and attempted to show him tips on how we say things in Colombia. As I kept going I had to always concede they were not rules but conventions, that how we pronounce things in one city changes radically in another, that to pretend language was stable was futile. Last semester I started reading "Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language" by Daniel Heller-Roazen for my thesis paper and while thinking about language acquisition and babble, I also started thinking about forgetting and migrating, about the letters we no longer pronounce, how we got read of the CH and LL in the Spanish alphabet, about how much I love the H being silent.