Fine Art- The Girl I am Today

I have decided to use a poem in my Fine Art project, since I remember the times when I was younger going to the ' In Flanders Field Museum' in Ypres, Belgium. It was fascinating to look at all the different pieces of art work, photographs artefacts and models from WW1. The piece that moved me the most there was an installation which included  four gas masks in glass cylinders which filled with smoke to represent gas all pointing at the viewer, collages and photographs, dramatic lighting, and WW1 poetry. For me the poetry was the most moving part of the installation and I feel that it would not have been the same without it, which is why I decided to write my own  poem to have played on a continuous loop for my installation.

Here it is:

The Girl I am Today by Kate Davis

 

You would not recognize the girl I am today,

If you knew the girl I was yesterday.

I was a little girl yesterday,

And did not want a say

In the way the world works or how people should behave.

You would think I could not hear you,

Or my responses delayed,

But I would engrave

Every word you say

In my mind,

And give you an answer in due time.

 

I will not deny,

My answers are still delayed,

But only for a second to let my mind engrave,

I learn from my past,

And the words that you speak,

And finally

I CAN SPEAK.

 

And the feathers are growing,

In gold, orange, red and blue,

Colours I always knew,

Lay buried underneath the pale flesh of the past,

They are coming out at last.

 

And I am the fire bird,

The PASSION

The CONTROL

All I have ever wanted to be,

I am,

The girl I am today.