Ryan Ferko
Heart of a Mountain
Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko
15 min | video | Taiwan | 2017
“The word island is a bird inside of a mountain”, explains the hand.
A photograph of a volcanic stone slice from the east coast of Taiwan, famous for its landscape-like patterns created by minerals and geological pressure; a snapshot of a “Capitoline Wolf” replica sculpture, a symbolic gift from an Italian ambassador to Chiang Kai-shek after he fled Mainland China for the island of Taiwan; Heart of a Mountain forms in the area between these objects whose stories are encoded as images. Technologies of translation form sentences that reach towards understanding, guiding a film that binds together human history and geological time in the obscure space that separates languages.