Though this year’s festival may be over, there are still those who have its works and impacts on their minds. Our Thinkers in Residence each went out during the festival days and engaged with the artists, the works, the public, and the street. They had their own reactions and interpretations of what they saw and experienced. As we look forward to 2017, let us take the time to look back on what these Thinkers thought and read their perspectives on this year’s festival.
Thinker in Residence: Sahaj Kohli
Bio:
what does it mean to be
an other
to have
two halves
striking no resemblance
a marionette can’t surrender
the seams at her shoulders, torn,
draped by long black
hair like the edge of the earth
claimed by rogue waves at midnight
skin, darker than your late December
snow-filled mornings
a hoop ring-decorated nose
feminine, subtle, subservient
rebellious
assimilating with the wrong crowd
you recognize parts of me
as yours, claim my disassociation
but I don’t belong
straddling two places
without answers, plagued
I’m like you.
I’m like them.
I drift