The word translation comes from the Latin translatio which itself is the result of the merging of two words: trans/across and ferre/to carry or to bring. Translatio, then, can be understood to mean a carrying across or a bringing across.

Latifa Elmrini Gonzalez is a visual artist, writer, spoken word poet and freelance curator and educator. A coffee and book addict, she is currently completing a degree at Victorian College of the Arts and knee deep into literary and art things of all...