MY POETRY (Moja poézia) [Hommage to Herman de Vries]

photo by Machteld Aardse / MAPA

(EN) My poetry is my escape,

I breathe it

I walk it

I feel it

I sense it

I cry with it.

My poetry

calms my deepest demons,

talks with my lifelong sorrows,

shares my vanishing joys,

contemplates my urging questions.

My poetry,

never leave my side,

I need you

too much.

Dorota Matejová, july 2021, The Hague

(SK) Moja poézia je mojím únikom,

dýcham ju,

kráčam s ňou,

cítim ju,

vnímam ju,

plačem s ňou.

Moja poézia

tíši mojich najhlbších démonov,

hovorí s mojím životným smútkom,

zdieľa moje drobné radosti,

rozjíma nad mojimi naliehavými otázkami.

Moja poézia,

nikdy ma neopúšťaj,

Potrebujem ťa

až priveľmi.

*z anglického originálu preložila autorka

analogue slide, painting and scratching technique made during MAPA Summer Academy 2021: Procession of Icons, author: D. Matejová, photo credits: Machteld Aardse / MAPA
from solo act “Renáta”, performer and text slide author: Dorota Matejová,
analogue projection: Machteld Aardse, artistic coaching: Ide van Heiningen (mime, analogue projection), Michael Helmerhorst (mime, object theatre), Virág Dezso (Musicality of Movement)
photo by Machteld Aardse / MAPA

I wrote the poem My poetry as an hommage to the Dutch artist Herman de Vries, inspired by his short writing “My poetry is the world” (see image below).

Báseň My poetry (Moja poézia) som napísala ako hommage holandskému umelcovi Herman de Vriesovi. Inšpirovala ma de Vriesova krátka “básnička” My poetry is the world… (Moja poézia je svet…).

author: Herman de Vries

Later I used My poetry in a short music/physical theatre act “Renáta ” created as an outcome of a two-week intense working process during “MAPA Summer Academy 2021: Procession of Icons” at Studio MAPA Nederland in Haarlem. The short piece was inspired by my mother and her beautiful photograph from early youth. I am exploring elements and “coping mechanisms” common between me, my mother, my grandmother as well as emotional ties, questions, struggles and similarities running through our generations.

Dorota Matejová, september 2021

Neskôr som báseň My poetry použila aj v krátkom hudobno-pohybovom divadelnom akte “Renáta”, ktorý bol výsledkom intenzívneho procesu počas dvoch týždňov Letnej Akadémie MAPA 2021: “Procesia Ikon” (Studio MAPA Nederland, Haarlem). Môj krátky sólo akt bol inšpirovaný mojou mamou a jej krásnym portrétom/fotografiou z jej ranej mladosti. Skúmam v ňom elementy a emocionálno-praktické mechanizmy podobné medzi mnou, mojou mamou a mojou starou mamou a emočné putá, otázky, boje a podobnosti kolujúce cez naše generácie.

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