Interview to Doorway to Art Magazine
- Eden Sleepwalker Interview by @GalyaVarna
- Feb 13, 2018
- 2 min read
Eden Sleepwalker is a self-published poet, graphic designer, artist and mother of two. Her debut poetry book, Charcoal Mist at Cotton Fields, is a mixed media project combining poems with drawings and in which she develops emotions in two forms—verbal and visual. Her wish is to draw her visions directly to the hearts of the readers through imagery.
► Eden Sleepwalker, you draw and write poetry. Tell us a bit more about yourself. As a graphic designer, for the biggest part of my life, I used to be focused on my daytime job and had hobbies related to my Art College studies including drawing, painting, and photography in my limited spare time. Although I always put emotion in whatever I’m committed to, at some point, I sensed that I had a hidden side and if I couldn’t find it I would never see the whole picture of who I was. I wasn’t aware though that my tool to accomplish that were the words beyond of being a reader. All started when I suddenly felt an impulse to write my first short story and in a few months, my very first poem. That was about five years ago. Since that moment, poetry won my heart, changed me in a right way as I’ve learned to mold sadness into something creative.
► Could you please share with us how a poem of yours is born?
Undoubtedly because of emotions. Sometimes it is a real, raw feeling that pinches my heart and needs to form with words and be shared. Other times the influence could be a single word, a phrase or a picture that had caught my attention and often that happens through Twitter prompts. They provide a motive to write and it may start as a game when you try to fit your poem into the 140 characters Twitter allowed until recently, but the result is to read some genuine poetic gems out there coming straight out from poetic souls.Unlike poetry, I draw not to express my feelings but when I’m fascinated by what I see, and I desire to represent it with my personal view or when my poems inspire me to create an image. Although I love other techniques as well, including watercolor, I’ve chosen charcoal to illustrate my poetry because there is a similar feel to them.
Read the rest of the interview along with a collection of poems here
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