about this piece
Inward Motion
2025
Visual Poem
Joshua Hamilton and Shiven Saxena, both assistant professors at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas, are collaborating on a collection of visual poems called “Homing Devices” which aims to explore the question of what constitutes a “home” and a sense of belonging in a life marked by certain nomadism and migration. They want to explore all the layers and sedimentation of senses, memories and emotions of the homes they have had in their lifetime and gain an understanding of this type of on-going localization that includes previous “homes”. The visual poems, which explore objects and views by cutting, trimming and interlacing try to express this sense of dislocation through the combination of images and words.
