Unnamed Poem in Mourning

Video, performance, auto-fictive ekphrastic poetry, 12’05’’

“She died, voluntarily. A night in early summer, the year we were 21 years old, she left the house forever and immersed herself in water…”

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This work features me responding to the audio of my auto-fictional poem, written after the suicide of my friend the year we were 21. The words in the piece are infused with imagery, they define a surreal, mystic landscape; I embody multiple personas moving through it, using my voice to reenact movements.