A Portrait of Languages
Artist Elly Sherman has been collecting the voices of the world for a number of years via a unique artistic presentation called "Words and Images." In this series, she has taken one of her own poems and had it translated into over 80 languages, both ancient and contemporary, common and nearly lost.
This presentation is of just one of those translations. It consists of her original poem, a translation of that poem into the Saami language of northern Scandinavia (sometimes known as Lappland), an audio reading of the poem in the Saami language, some music from the region and some links to other Saami sites.
More information about the artist and this collection can be obtained via e-mail to ellys@earthlink.net
More information on Scandinavian music and culture is available on RootsWorld
All work is copyright 1997 Elly Sherman and the artists.
