The accompanying visual image are not mere illustrations. They emerge from a life's mysterious terrain and remain as non-verbal memories. It is written in English, French, German, Hungarian, and neologisms. Languages in Uxudo are often presented as connected. This right and left split construction of the book points to how connection is the dominant compositional mode.
Languages are mixed on the right side.
The left side, connected with the right, presents footnotes of sort in which several languages are further connected through translation. And an additional connective link to this chain of language reference is the family photographs which appear in the background of many of the pages. This work presents a space where the familiar is multi-vernacular. And as there are few more consequent ideologies that affect our social structures than the family, these poems also point to how the familiar is at every level engaged with the violently contested landscapes of nations. This connective intent in Uxudo suggests that what we are dealing with in part is something familiar, something intimate about languages.