Performance

Lydian

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Lydian is a work that looks sideways at language, using the ancient Lydian script as both subject and structure. Its letterforms trace a lineage from Phoenician sources through Greek neighbors, while retaining quirks that refuse easy classification. In New York City, it lands as a reminder that alphabets are civic tools as much as scholarly artifacts, carrying power, trade, and identity across borders. The piece is at its strongest when it lets those historical fractures remain unresolved, rather than smoothing them into a single story.