Ido Michaeli The Craft of Translation

Ido Michaeli undertakes the task of translation. Born into a family that hailed from an Arab country and raised in Israel, Michaeli, who now lives in New York, sets out to translate Central Park, in the heart of the West, into the language of the East, by turning it into a series of Persian carpets hanging on the gallery walls, which represent the changing seasons. As an immigrant who translates one set of codes to another, Michaeli tries to mediate an idea of nature from culture to culture, and like the artist, the carpets, too, pave their winding way between the United States, Israel, and Afghanistan.