JENA ARGENTA

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ABOUT/

Words are sediments, not just sentiments. They shape world-view, spacial composition & socio-sculptural elements of communication, belonging, & inclusion.

My work explores an expanded sense of communication through themes of legacy, illegibility, rupture, loss, translation, & intimacy. My palette is subtle & organic, metallic, iridescent, & informed by community voices. Works resist viewing from a single physical vantage-point, sense of self, or linguistic sensibility. They are informed by almost a decade of study & practice in global calligraphies.

Your writing is all around me/ it doesn’t leave my bed

there is healing in it /for what I have been concealing

—al Qushayrī Trans Kristin Zahra Sands

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