PhD researcher Xsara Helmi, funded by the Leverhulme Trust Aural Diversity Research Doc Hub, LAURA), will have her poem To Be Unmade featured in Issue #9 of Indelible, the literary and arts journal from the London Arts-Based Research Centre. The issue, themed Awakening, launches on 11th October in print and digital formats.
Helmi integrates poetic writing into her practice to navigate conscious and unconscious processes while engaging with her embodied experience as an autistic woman in the world.
Themes of threshold, surrender, and transformation reflect Jungian individuation- disparate aspects of self, body, psyche, and environment moving toward integration and Rogers’ concept of self-actualisation, as the poem enacts a journey in which the self-unfolds, adapts, reaching toward fullest potential.
Helmi’s research explores how integrating positionality, affect, and embodied phenomenology contributes to the depth and creative generativity of transdisciplinary arts-based practice, aligned with a/r/tography.