GIO TRIBE speaks to the absence of the masculine presence in TAKI’s life during the war—where his tribal language, culture, and paternal connection were severed. The echoes of a disrupted past create a void in the foundation of development, leaving an emptiness. The inability to connect to a father’s language and fatherland due to war becomes a lingering absence, shaping an abstract concept of a native language—one that exists more as a memory of loss than a spoken reality.