Serpenta Embroidery II: “You Don’t Know What Love Is”, by Alan Ishii
Posted on Mar 29, 2013 by Intravenal Sound Operations
Posted on Mar 29, 2013 by Intravenal Sound Operations
I have been awed by Assyrian art twice: The first occasion was while standing before a huge ancient stone relief depicting a war scene exhibited in the British Museum during my university years. The second was a collection of silver ornaments called ‘telkari’ made by fine threads of silver. They looked like metal embroidery of the finest kind. Decades later I visited Mardin and Midyat to discover that long after the disappearance of the Assyrian Empire, the fine masonry they have left behind had lived on.