Hyperglyphs I

This series of tufted works emerges from an ongoing excavation of my Armenian heritage—an attempt to unearth a cultural lineage that feels both distant and inescapable. The motifs are drawn from the stone reliefs of Yerevan’s Cascade Complex, their ancient forms reconfigured in hyper-saturated palettes, warped through the lens of diaspora. By reimagining these symbols, I interrogate the fluidity of cultural memory and the tension between preservation and transformation.

One of these pieces was gifted to my grandmother, the last living link to a history I struggle to access. Dementia had already begun erasing her world; she did not recognize the offering. Now she is gone; and with her, the direct transmission of lineage has fractured. This body of work becomes an act of reconstruction—an attempt to materialize the intangible, to weave continuity from rupture, and to assert presence within the spectral remains of inheritance.