This experiential media memoir began when I was forced to relocate to my friend’s farm in the green mountains of Vermont due to the pandemic shutdown.
At the time, I was in the second semester of an MFA program at the University of Delaware and could not work on my thesis project while in isolation in Vermont.
After adjusting to the drastic change in pace and environment, I started capturing the moments I was experiencing, contrasting them with my life in the city. I explored the ideas, conceptual leaps, and poetic emotions that arose from these precious moments in a place that felt distinctly foreign to me as an urban Haitian exile.
The project, as I envision it, is divided into three parts:
Act 1: “The Child” focuses on the time I spent with my godchild, who was growing quickly and experiencing the world at both warp speed and the slow pace of childhood.
A home video of my explorations with my mischief partner Poodle.
Act 2: “The Life” discusses my experiences in Philadelphia, New York, and Chicago, reflecting on these cities where I lived and the vibrant human interactions within them.
This section is a masala of images and a cacophony of emotions rather than a story.
The text here relates to my emotional state living in one of the most difficult, impovrished areas of urban America, reeling from the cataclism of the opiod epidemic.
