Ñ

Leandro Katz spent several decades living and working in New York City. His multidisciplinary practice as a visual artist, poet, and filmmaker explores the links between art and language. Katz’s book "Ñ" consists of seven offset-color sheets featuring this letter, enlarged to fill the entire page, as well as copies of dictionary pages of words beginning with "ñ". According to the artist, “Ñ is a unique character of the Spanish alphabet. The sound Ñ did not exist in classic Latin, Greek, Hebrew nor Arabic.... Most of the words whose initial [letter] is Ñ today are words adopted into Spanish from the indigenous American speech (Quichua, Aymará, Mapuche, Calepino, Lule, Tonocoté, Allentiac, Toba, Mataco, Tehuelche and Ona languages).”