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This act of transposing speech into song and then into soil asserts that words are not only spoken, sung, or written\u2014they can be planted, ingrained into history itself.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Coffee becomes a bearer of memory\u2014ritual, resistance, and gathering\u2014especially in Ethiopia, its origin and a symbol of survival under colonization. Installed over ancient mosaics of gladiators and beasts\u2014figures once enslaved for public spectacle\u2014the work draws a quiet link between past exploitation and persistent global inequality. Mutu\u2019s poem seeps into the museum floor, refusing monumentality of form, but insisting on the weight of its message.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grains of Words is a floor-based poem made from letters sculpted in coffee and tea, transforming language into presence. 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