The Immortal Letters

The Immortal Letters was inspired by Ancient Letters (4th century) – a series of Sogdian handwritten documents discovered by Sir Aurel Stein in Dunhuang, China, in 1907. The series consists of five almost whole letters that have the names of the sender and addressee inscribed on the outside. They were all to be sent to Samarkand, which is situated 3,200 kilometres to the west. The Immortal Letters reflects the artist’s first acquaintance with the Sogdian language which became extinct in Central Asia in around the 10th century AD.