Part of the Same Place

Alexa Dayoan

photo credit: Alexa Dayoan

“Part of the Same Place” is a representation of the tension inherent between the real and imagined worlds in which we currently live.

Once I set my timer, and the four minutes and thirty-three seconds began counting down, all I could think about was how the quarantine was changing my way of life. As the seconds ticked by, I looked through my scrap images and came across a photo of a middle aged man sitting on his bed, looking out the window. I replaced his head with the image of a curious young girl, and broke down the wall to reveal a lake surrounded by land and sky. Across the bedroom and the clouds, I wrote the line of a song that was stuck in my head. 

In the end, the collage became, to me, an image of how intertwined our collective fates currently are, and how the worlds beyond our homes, the ones we hold dear in our memories, are still part of the worlds in which we are confined.

Alexa Dayoan is pursuing her MFA in creative writing at the City College of New York in Harlem. She is a graduate editor for the journal Promethean and self publishes her own zines, which consist of original poetry and collage art. She also sings and plays the ukulele. @stackoqueso