DescriptionThe aim of this project was create a series of hybrid pieces in poetry and nonfiction. The creative pieces in this thesis attempt to explore these two genres and what they can offer. My question was: What can poetry offer an artist that nonfiction cannot, and vice versa? Although the aims of these genres are different, I wanted to create pieces that talk to one another across genre and across time. Each piece, be it poetry or prose, informs another. The poems, which are compressions, are made richer by the vast and open landscape of prose. While on the other hand, the poems contain an immediate emotional current that shape the mood of the nonfiction pieces surrounding them. At the core, this is largely a project that attempts to explore memories, the past—to make sense of so much that was lost through the passing of the years. Finally, the work also tried to make sense of recollection. What things do we recollect from the past? Why do we remember the things we remember? How does my mind see?