dāl | دال

In dāl, GPS coordinates, satellite imagery, and Google Maps views become a map that no longer represents the place itself, but instead form a speculative cartography of where its effects might appear. Echoing Donna Haraway’s notion of diffraction, dāl traces not replication but interference, transforming the residues of place into a hypothesis - an elsewhere generated from the tremors, distortions, and displacements of captured space.
Donna Haraway, in her essay “The Promises of Monsters,” wrote: “Diffraction does not produce ‘the same’ displaced, as reflection and refraction do. Diffraction is a mapping of interference, not of replication, reflection, or reproduction. A diffraction pattern does not map where differences appear, but rather maps where the effects of differences appear".
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* “dāl” in Farsi means a sign or indicator that points to or signifies something else.