A5, 78 pages, Risograph printing, Coil bound, Hand painted covers, 2024

ORO:ORÐ began as a conversation with the Basque composer, Alex Mendizabal about the existence of an Icelandic-Basque Pidgin language formed when Basque sailors arrived in Iceland in the early 17th century.

We decided to update the pidgin in the form of a libretto in which 12 Acts each correspond to a painting from the year 1616. The Icelandic-Basque poems are ekphrastic, describing each painting, but the paintings are not shown in their original. Each painting has been transformed by AI into a line drawing

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