Nicaea Two

Nicaea Two is a poem embedded in an image representing the synthronon of the Hagia Sophia church in Iznik (Turkey), where happened the Second Council of Nicaea in 787 AD, restoring the use and veneration of icons. The text neutrally describes the tension created by the presence of firearms in American society and introduces a rhyme structure based entirely on numbers inspired by different bullet calibers.

Each verse is dissolved into a visual representation of the very physical location where the major debate concerning the use of images vs language occurred twelve hundred years ago, forcing the reader to be part of this conversation.

“Nicaea Two” 1/1, Single Channel Video, 81s., 716 x 1280 pixels, 40Mb.