Frankenflora Morphologues
An ekphrasis sequence of poems in response to the work of botanical artist, Katrina Vera Wong. Frankenflora Morphologues is an ekphrasis inquiry that splices together the mad science and poetics of hybridity. Inspired by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Wong creates Frankenflora, imagined flower hybrids made from disparate parts of dried or pressed plants.
Like a mosaic, she pieces them together to synergize new specimens that do not exist in nature. Wong creates each Frankenflora as a new species with their own morphological and ecological characteristics. My fragmented lyric in turn stitches together a matrix of liminality, creation, and ecolinguistics in transmutational response to the materiality and posthumanism of these speculative hybrids.
A poem, alongside its flora companion from this project was published in Issue 2 0f Ekphrasis Magazine
Like a mosaic, she pieces them together to synergize new specimens that do not exist in nature. Wong creates each Frankenflora as a new species with their own morphological and ecological characteristics. My fragmented lyric in turn stitches together a matrix of liminality, creation, and ecolinguistics in transmutational response to the materiality and posthumanism of these speculative hybrids.
A poem, alongside its flora companion from this project was published in Issue 2 0f Ekphrasis Magazine
Room
In March 2024, I was the poet-in-residence at Studio Faire. During my time at the residency, I collaborated with dance artist, Rob Kitsos. Rob's arts-based research called "Moving Matter" explores material-led choreographies that offers a methodology for rethinking the dynamism between raw materials, spaces, and the body. This collaborative-led work inspires short films, installations, and live performances. Our collaboration resulted in a short film that is narrated with my oral recitation of a found poem I wrote in response to the spatiality of Rob''s research in relation to his studio space, "The Garage."
evolutionary linguistics
In 2019 I was a resident at Art Song Lab in Vancouver. Art Song lab is a collaborative institute facilitating creative interaction between writers, composers, and performers from around the world to advance the genre of contemporary art song. I was paired with multi-instrumentalist composer, Cameron Catalano and through our collaborative efforts, we scored my poem, "evolutionary linguistics" into an art song for classical music and performance