SUMMER BREAKUP (2025-2026):
An interdisciplinary project combining mosaic, poetry, video art, and zine-making.
A year-long commitment to seasonal poems, offering a slow, intentional journey cycling through the stages of a breakup.
I began with making video art documenting the act of breaking up a meaningful object (see below), then integrated its shards into a sculptural mosaic.
On the centerpiece mirror I wrote an original poem: a text that blends biology, heartbreak and the Jewish custom of Shmita.*
A year-long commitment to seasonal poems, offering a slow, intentional journey cycling through the stages of a breakup.
I began with making video art documenting the act of breaking up a meaningful object (see below), then integrated its shards into a sculptural mosaic.
On the centerpiece mirror I wrote an original poem: a text that blends biology, heartbreak and the Jewish custom of Shmita.*
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Shmita*
On the seventh day God rested From all the work He had performed On the seventh week From beginning the harvest You shall make the Shavuot holiday To your God And on the seventh year Of our breakup There will be Not one single cell left In my body That has known The touch of your hands And thus I could Finally Release you. |
"Shmita" (2025): Porcelain, wood, mirror, acrylic
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*Shmita is a Jewish custom - a sabbatical year in Jewish law, occurring every seventh year. On a Shmita year—a "release" year— the land is left fallow, debts are forgiven, and a general sense of releasing is observed.
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Next I compiled Shmita (translated to English, and now published in The Jewish Poets Collective Journal) and five additional original poems to create Summer BreakUP: A Poetry Zine. Hard copies of the zine were printed and distributed at multiple Bristol venues: From cultural hangouts like The Arnolfini and Watershed, to bookshops like Second Page and The Last Bookshop, and many other literary and artistic hubs around the city.
Hundreds of Bristol readers picked up the zines, read the poems — and some took the opportunity to write back of the impact the poems had on them. |
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After publishing the Summer Zine I found myself cycling through various emotions that brought in memories of other cycles: The menstrual cycle; The astronomical cycle; The cycle of the seasons...
I didn't fight my intuition. I let the natural course of my feelings set the tone. My heart called to make this journey a CYCLE of zines: A quarterly poetry zine. One for each season. A full year of breakup poems. The "Summer Break Up" Project is a new trajectory in my practice: Setting out on an art journey without having a firm idea of the course it would take, or the end point I wish to reach. This really excites me. I am proud to share with you "Let It Fall", the second installation in my year-long poetry zine series. |
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I started by smashing a mug.
Then that mug requested to be made into sculptural art.
Then that art requested to have words.
Then those words requested to be compiled and shared.
Now, as more poems flow out of me,
and as I see them reflecting the passing of the seasons,
they whisper to me: Commit to this practice.
A full year's cycle of breakup poems.
Then that mug requested to be made into sculptural art.
Then that art requested to have words.
Then those words requested to be compiled and shared.
Now, as more poems flow out of me,
and as I see them reflecting the passing of the seasons,
they whisper to me: Commit to this practice.
A full year's cycle of breakup poems.
