Research project developed at the Latvian Centre, Münster, 2014-2015. How language, absence, and dysfunction shape identity and expression. Domestic, withdrawn objects in the librarydisplaced into monuments: a towel becomes archive, embroidery becomes inscription. Palsy — the body's dysfunction in producing speech. Pronunciation — the attempt to make the foreign language come out right. What is produced in the gap between the attempt and the result.