Crosshatch
Jovina P.
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This portfolio explores how memory transforms the ordinary objects and places we carry with us like journals, stairways, mirrors, and bridges into emotional souvenirs of our younger selves. Each poem began as a physical moment I returned to: the pressure of a pen on a page, the weight of a suitcase, the echo of footsteps on familiar stairs. Writing became a way of tracing the unspoken spaces between what is held and what is lost. I approached each piece as a conversation with physical anchors from my past, letting imagery surface intuitively before shaping it into form. The work reflects my process of sitting with objects long enough for them to speak back, revealing the quiet truths stitched into their textures. Ultimately, these poems document the fragile, shifting boundaries of home, identity, and the self we meet again in memory (and fortunately, sometimes in real-life, as in Dear Mirror).
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To me, creation is an act of participation in the awe of bringing something that nobody has conceived of into existence. It is a lifelong struggle to overcome the urge to resist the spark of inspiration from everyday life and to believe that it is worthy enough of becoming art.
