Ghosts I count
This manuscript explores themes of female identity, family constellations, heritage, love, and war, while also examining the limitations and possibilities of language. Written in longform (epic), the poem takes the premise of a muse who discovers her own agency within the poem, meditating on the role of the artist in relation to their subject. As the voice of the muse becomes increasingly indistinguishable from the author’s, an autobiographical dimension emerges, whereby the muse is instilled with subjectivity, a commentary on how muses have been dehistoricized and depoliticized as vehicles to produce art.
CLIP
CLIP is a digital journal of art and writing currently curated by Sonja Bjelić and Cole Highnam; past collaborators include Jioayang Li and b ferguson.
Poetry, Consciousness, Birth
This workshop is open to anyone who is interested in processes of transformation that set the stage for moments of acute insight. In this two-hour workshop, in collaboration with artist/musician Cole Highnam, we will explore how physiological changes become pathways to access altered states. Along the way, we will chart parallels in the manner in which undisturbed childbirth and acts of creation have been co-opted by mechanistic and capitalistic worldviews emphasizing production over process. In the spirit of maintaining our creative agency, we summon the cosmic from the quotidian. Proprioceptively, we come into our bodies as they are, and through verbal, aural and visual cues, venture along an inward trajectory that brings us deep into our innate poetic capacity, for we are natura naturans: “nature doing what nature does."
