“Mother-tongue” is a series of blind-embossed paper collages. The project fuses the sites of pre-literate civilization with twenty-first century texts that grapple with the erasure of cultural traditions. The embossed forms are based on the ruins of several nuraghe, Bronze-Age fortresses on the island of Sardinia. I collage with colored pencil, silk fabric, Japanese paper, sewing notions, and build up textual fragments from the contemporary Sardinian writer Antonella Anedda. Anedda writes in Italian and Lugodorese, a language that incorporates elements of Byzantine Greek, Catalan and Castilian.