ART IS HOME by KAYLA MULDROW | ONE TAKE POETRY
Kayla Muldrow delivers a disarmingly captivating performance of her original poem, ART IS HOME. The poem inspired her classmates’ contribution to the Cherry Blossoms in Winter public art project.
Filmed and recorded at Arts High School (in Kayla’s own class with local teaching legend Bob Richardson) in Newark, NJ.
One Take Poetry features the best spoken word poets performing original works… captured in a single take – no cuts, no breaks, no wannabes.
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT
Art is home.
We are all homeless until we can express ourselves.
We are homeless until we can move how we want to move
and do what we love to do.
Art is home.
Each class has its own room,
a bed inside with specific tools.
Everyone wears their own specific pajamas.
Leotards for some, aprons and dresses for a few.
Everyone is comfortable.
Everyone likes the space.
They love their home and art.
Art is home.
And this home is as large as a mansion,
endless and continuously expanding.
Catering to them, they, and you.
Art is not branded.
It has no specific name.
It doesn’t come with “Trump” stamped on the rooftop
or Van Gough’s residence on the mailbox.
Art does not close after four or on Sundays.
Art does not go out of business. Art has no targeted consumers.
Art does not yell, “Next!”
Art does not require a membership, no license or registration.
Art does not ask, “Debit or credit?”
Art never says, “Sorry we are closed.”
Art does not postpone.
Art does not promise cash flow.
Art does not care if you are struggling or about your worldly possessions.
Art doesn’t tell you how to spend, cut, trim, or loop.
It doesn’t make you jump through hoops to get a scholarship.
Art doesn’t care about the social class you belong in.
Well…
at least it shouldn’t.
Art isn’t more than coloring in the lines, but it isn’t less.
It’s not, but it is stress.
Art is a contradictory mess
which is probably why it hardly ever asks for your best.
It wants nothing more than proof that you exist.
So whether you’re
down
up
sad
happy
or alone
Art says
“Welcome Home”
Thank you.
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