Eka Savajol

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Artist Statement: 

“I Tell Another trans person

I feel most in my skin

in Greyhound bus terminals.

Neither of us talks

about what it means to only be seen in a liminal way —

to only be seen when we are in movement, between two points.”

— Aeon Ginsberg, Greyhound

I often wonder if my feeling of transness as a state of perpetual motion is my choice, or whether this feeling is imposed on me by others. Wondering this, my understanding of choice and of my physical being in relation to this choice is clouded. With my poetic monologue, The Road, I try to ground this feeling of movement to understand what happens to consent in intimate settings when the relationship of the self to the world is so foggy.

Photograph of the artist holding a bookBIO:

Eka Savajol (He/Him) is a freshman in Gallatin working on his practice as a screenwriter, playwright, and poet. His work has been performed all over his hometown of Houston, Texas, and published digitally and in print in places such as The Alexandria Quarterly, Impossible Archetype, and Ultraviolet. His influences include large mounds of dirt and taxidermy animals. 

@ekasavaj