The Wind is Reading (2025) 
Video, 18 minutes 


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.