In the video The Wind is Reading we see a tableau of books lying in the
sand with their pages turning in the wind. We follow the books for
several days, at different times of day and in different weather. The
work is a remake of a film scene from The Color of Pomegranates by
Sergei Parajanov. In Parajanov’s original 14-second scene, a boy is
shown carrying books to the roof of a stone church building. On the
rooftop, the books are lying open and the wind makes their pages turn.
The film is a portrait of the Armenian singer and poet Sayat-Nova ( “King
of Songs”). It is made allegorically, meaning that every scene portrays
a part of Sayat-Nova’s life through a visual metaphor. The book scene
is said to represent his time studying at a monastery, where he found
the beauty of the word.
