This is an exhibition about muteness and linguistic affect, tools used to mitigate the atrocity of our world. Here, language is understood as a vehicle for impacted feeling as much as its blockade. Many texts add up to an imperfect and inadequate language, sourced from a wide range of fields and disciplines: military reference books and dictionaries, hymn and songbooks, compositional assignments, literary criticism, books on anagrams, codes and ciphers, riddles and idioms, newspapers, and a theater script. My son mistakenly called a parrot a poet, and that perfect slip of the tongue entered the work too. Language — less fixed than