Consider the beautiful khatchkars: they started out standing proud and tall. Majestic, detailed, ornate. They began to lean, looking weaker, until finally they were cracked, buried and demolished – leaving the heart of Armenia’s culture, its religion, its very people, broken.
This is what the photo exhibit, Armenian Monuments of the Nakhichevan Region, by Argam Ayvazian and Steven Sim, reveals to its visitors. Panel after panel fill the Concourse Gallery corridors at Harvard with pictures of patterned pottery, rock drawings, tombstones, churches, and of course, khatchkars, or cross-stones.
by Yvette k. Harpootian
November 10, 2007
The Armenian Reporter
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