We asked the artists participating in the symposium to share their thoughts/responses after the weekend we spent together. Here’s the poem that poet and illustrator Alicja Rosé performed with her group at Hellviktangen Kunstkafé on the final day of the symposium:
You see, I’m a dream
collector and you’re a water
carrier and the fog is dense
in the valley I can hear somebody
knocking
knock
knock
no
it is just a memory
I want to be at many nows at once
I heard the unspoken words
I looked for the dear face
in the valley where we were
once so long alone together
in the fog I heard your
steps retracing the past
we spoke our mother tongues
– so amazing
and frightening
in a dense fog our
grandfathers met.
Alicja Rosé, August 2020
