Splintering Through is a dramatic work that combines poems and monologues with digital images. Conceived as performance piece with jazz music accompaniment, they were written at a time when the author felt menaced as a writer from a foreign country.

"After September 11 the public discourse in America sounded very similar to the nationalistic, patriotic communist propaganda that I grew up with in Romania. It reached a point that everyone was using the same words and displayed the same attitudes. There seemed to be no diversity of opinion and no freedom of speech to voice doubt or merely our worries or joys not connected with the disaster. My friends and I felt guilty if we had a good day or, God forbid, were in the mood for flirting."

"From my home in Bloomfield, I keenly observed how fear, loneliness, paranoia, silence, or hate seeped into the stories and actions of people. I loathe political rhetoric and fight against the uniformity of language/expression and attitudes."

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