I Go Back to Both Sides of the Dream – Makayla Danielle Gay
Makayla Danielle Gay’s project for the 2025 Jack Straw Writers Program is a series of poetry collages that combine poetry with archival film from her family. In her conversation with curator Kathleen Alcalá, they discuss the process of going through archival material, why she says art-making is an act of community, and the challenge of writing about the environment in a poetry collage. “Within that environmental memory is thinking about the way it changes or has changed. I think that’s what feels pretty unique, to me at least, with writing about a place. Writing about a place that people think about in the past tense, and it’s a place that is quickly changing.”
Music by Greg Kramer, produced in part through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.
