Transatlantic Correspondence: The Calligraphic Traces of Emilia Beatriz and Sofía Gallisá Muriente
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Abstract
For Puerto Rican Glasgow-based artist Emilia Beatriz (they/elle), “lived” spaces are not necessarily defined in terms of geographic proximity. Elsewhere they have reframed diasporic experience in relation to what they call “‘entangled’ action at a distance,” or a “non-local connection, an awareness and experience that is crossing borders.” This essay explores the possibility of dialogue across the Global North and South, but also the troubled nature implied in such conversations. Taking as a point of departure the late 1960s and early seventies epistolary correspondence between the renowned Puerto Rican graphic artist and calligrapher, Lorenzo Homar, and the Scottish calligrapher and academic, Stuart Barrie, the author analyzes the work of Emilia Beatriz and fellow Puerto Rican artist Sofía Gallisá Muriente, by focusing on the arresting artwork and audiovisual constellation declarations on soil and honey (2019), including its subsequent adaptations and iterations. The author demonstrates how writing in these installation pieces extends across varied organic and inorganic matter, from moss and peat, to ice and salt. Closing with analyses of Henry Raeburn’s painting, The Reverend Robert Walker (1755–1808) Skating on Duddingston Loch (c. 1795), and Homar’s print, Unicornio en la Isla (Unicorn on the island; 1965–66), the author demonstrates how writing, language, and speech materialize the corrosive and dislocating forces of colonialism, empire, and militarism. She argues that, in these exemplary works, language and the creative deployment of words, text, and writing, broadly understood, serve to create a “space” of collective mourning—and potentially collective healing. Here, mourning is understood as a collective and restorative ritual in relation to loss.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".