In spring 2025, the author of the performance traveled to Lake Van, to the remains of Narekavank — the monastery where the poet Grigor Narekatsi lived and worked. In his autoethnographic text, written from travel impressions, the author reflects on Christian faith as a way of prosthetically replacing what has been lost: lost lands, a lost past, an utopia.

In his subsequent reflections, however, the author realizes that any speech of his is insufficient. This leads to a decision to abandon speech and to delegate it to someone — or rather, something — else.

Thus, the performance attempts to listen to the speech/silence/presence of natural elements collected by the author during the journey. Stones found near the ruins of Armenian churches in Eastern Anatolia, the soil, the water of Lake Van — these artefacts emerge as the only sovereign bearers of Christian speech.