Layering Reason is a monument by the artist Zadik Zadikian, conceived as a dedication from the Armenian community to the soldiers who fell in the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh, a war that took the lives of thousands of young Armenians.
For Armenians around the world this loss is still raw. The monument is meant to honour the fallen and to let the viewer feel the scale of what was lost. It is also meant to be a work of hope.
The artist conceived the work for a specific site, the Cafesjian Center for the Arts in Yerevan, and the museum’s architecture shaped its design. The proposal calls for the work to be fabricated in Los Angeles and donated by its sponsors to the Cafesjian Center.
Learn more about the Cafesjian Center for the Arts.