"Kozhamyktar" artist's book
Digital printed, each copy has stencil print and sighned by hand. Circulation:14 pieces. Size while open: 1100mm x 715mm.
Kozhamyk (plural “kozhamyktar”) is a small poem reminiscent of haiku and a ditty at the same time.
Kozhamyk is widespread throughout the Republic of Tyva and is one of the main genres of the song tradition of the Todzhans, an indigenous small Siberian people living in the Todzhinsky district of the Republic.
I chose a few of my favorite poems and hand-wrote them in a font I developed from ancient handwriting.
I n the process of unfolding the texts of the poems fall apart and gradually develop again, passing through the space of the sheet.
* my yellow deer will go where my thoughts would not go
my gray deer will go where my dreams could not go
*I would gouge out the eyes of that official who killed my father
I would crush the teeth of that wolf which ate my horse