letter - to anyone who is listening

2019. Video, 1000s of photographs
Poem: by Doyali Islam - published in 'Heft' (2019) by McClelland & Stewart
Produced for the Visible Poetry Project

How does one inhabit a world in which “the moon / & the drone hang in the same sky”? Doyali Islam’s poem 'letter' interrogates this question, offering no solutions. The work is saturated with longing – and charged by it.

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Screened at the Bowery Poetry Club, New York.
Featured on Shondaland website