26 Okkor Painting

The majority of Bengalis in London speak in the Sylheti dialect of which the written form Sylheti Nagri is no longer in use, however in London it has spurred urban languages such as Banglish. This was the starting point of '26 Okkor' where the potency of the green and red colours of the national flag is bled to distance the viewer from its obvious symbolic associations. The individual canvases depict the complexity in the transliteration and transcription of the Romanization of Bengali, an Indo-Aryan language with 50 characters and no less than 350 combinations, overlaid with the later, more cursive Arabic lettering; each canvas contains the phonetics of the 26 letters of the English alphabet. These obscure highbrid symbols hold meaning but are indecipherable as some letters cannot be easily translated, like the letter V. *Available for sale/ prints - poa*

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:2.8 W x 78.7 H x 118.1 D in

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