The Harmony of ing and isms emerges from a sustained act of wandering—a meander through the inner labyrinth of the self. The work interrogates inherited and cherished ideologies (“isms”), bringing their shadows, weight, and contradictions into view, not to discard them outright but to allow them to breathe, shift, and transform.
Set against the restless movement of “ing”—becoming, questioning, passing through—the project traces a dynamic process of rupture and reconciliation. Each step forward is marked by reflection and recalibration, as motion and meaning, impulse and conviction, are brought into dialogue. Rather than offering fixed conclusions, the work embraces flux as method and awareness as practice.
The meander is purposeful: it moves toward the emergence of the highest self. In this space, identity unfolds unbound and luminous, not through certainty, but through the harmonisation of change and belief. The Harmony of ing and isms positions becoming itself as an ethical and spiritual act—an ongoing arrival shaped by movement, doubt, and attentive presence.
The project is part of the subtheme Writing After – Catastrophe, Memory, and the Archive of Loss.
Author
Yewande Adenike Akinse
Yewande Adenike Akinse is a Poet and Author of two collections of poetry, titled, "A tale of being, of green and of ing" (2019) and Voices: A collection of poems that tell stories (2016).
Her poems have appeared in Clay Literary, Trampset, Galleyway, Afritondo, Shuf Poetry, The Open Culture Collective, Lumiere Review, Dipity Magazine, The Unconventional Courier, The Agam Agenda, The Creative Zine, Konya Shamsrumi, Sevhage, Moremi Review, Tampered Press, Nightingale and Sparrow, Versopolis, Auvert Magazine, Panocha Zine, Visual Verse, Pride Magazine and elsewhere.
She is the winner of the World Bank YouthActonEDU Poetry Prize, the Project Knucklehead prize for creative rebellion, The Guardian Newspaper Poetry prize and the Fidelity Bank prize for creative writing.
