Arsik
A companion about family names, memory and a future story.
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A thirteen-page companion to Arsen and I Am Who I Am. Arsik is the affectionate family name Arsen already carries, imagined here as a name for the son he hopes to welcome and the next chapter of their family.
Before the books, symbols, systems and public name, there was a family name spoken close to home. Arsen Saidov would become the name printed beneath the work, but the earlier voice remained inside it. Arsik is Arsen Saidov at the point of origin: the affectionate family name that preserves the child inside the author and the creative centre from which the later work grows.
Arsik is Arsen Saidov at the point of origin: the affectionate family name that preserves the child inside the author and the creative centre from which the later work grows.
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- The Name Before the Name
- The Child in the Mirror
- The Name Given by Family
- Father, Mother, and Origin
- The Third Sentence
- Truth Before Performance
- Strength Without a Crown
- Between Languages and Worlds
- Discipline and the Body
- The Search Beyond Appearances
- Human and Artificial Intelligence
- Legacy Without Imprisonment
- The Cosmos and the Door into I Am Who I Am
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