Travelogue Series: Falling into Language

September 7 to December 1, 2023
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Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees’s Falling into Language immerses viewers in moving and still images of indigo ink paintings and invented languages. These visuals are accompanied by a collaged soundtrack of vocables—sounds without literal meaning—recorded around the world. Together, these elements invite us to imagine an excavated world of unknown origin and consider what our own origin stories might be.

Falling into Language is a companion exhibition to Un-Tying Our Cosmic Ancestry, that will be on view at the Christian-Green Gallery. Both are the latest iterations of TwoTrees’s Travelogue Series, an ever-evolving exploration of Spirit, Nature, and the journey to union with the Cosmos.

Curated by Omi Osun Joni L. Jones
Professor Emerita of African and
African Diaspora Studies

Thank you to African and African Diaspora Studies, the College of Fine Arts, John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, Center for Women and Gender Studies, Humanities Institute support provided by Viola S. Hoffman and George W. Hoffman Lectureship in Liberal Arts and Fine Arts, Department of Theatre and Dance, and Native American and Indigenous Studies for their support of Travelogue Series.