PERSONAL PROJECT Poetry
When I was 19 years old, I moved to London for my studies.
I ended up staying there 11 years.
I ended up staying there 11 years.
Faced with a new culture and a whole new place to explore, I often walked around with a notebook, jotting down poem-like thoughts as a way to capture and mend the sense of isolation mixed with awe that I was feeling.
Fifteen years later, I stumbled on these poems and felt compelled to interact with them in a new way. I recorded them and laid them out in type as a way of reconnecting with the person that I had been and, through this project, offering her the soothing that my current, somewhat healed, self can give. These are some of the poems that resulted from that journey.
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Background images sourced on Unsplash (with the exception of COMPENDIUM where the photos are my own) and music from Epidemic Sound.
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