The birds and the chickens always bring me back to the Albanian ABC book, the Abetare. In the lesson for the letter P, there is a boy named Petrit. “Pulat e Petritit.” Petrit and the chickens.

Image “Abetare (House),” detail. Born in a village in Kosovo, Petrit Halilaj escaped to an Albanian refugee camp called Kukes II, in 1998, when Serbian forces burned down his family home.Credit ...

For Halilaj, who was forced as a young child to relocate to an Albanian refugee camp and for whom art became an outlet and form of therapy, the project is a deeply personal one. “Abetare” will ...