Visiting Artist: Linda Ganjian

,Linda Ganjian is a sculpture artist, examining identity from a variety of different angles. Sitting around a rectangle table, housing her current work, she introduced us to her take on displaying identity. She has a variety of work that displayed her identity as well as an identity that related to others. Her most obvious personal piece was Navelstone. Navelstone is a collaborative piece in which both artist created tiles to represent the interaction of Armanian and Turkish culture.Linda's tiles were mainly about coming from an Armenian identity. I grew to appreciate tile work after studying Islamic tiles in Spain. Looking at Linda's tiles definitely brought me back to Islamic tiles. Her use of colors pays incredible homage to tile work. I found Migration Map to be most like traditional tiles.
Her Towers series related to identity through language. She studied different alphabets and reworked the letters into a tower. These piece is a bit easier to relate to because we all have our own alphabets which are a daily part of our lives. I also found it incredibly interesting to examine alphabets and rework them into a structure.
Posted below are the works referred to in this post.

Navelstone

Migration Map

Towers