🎨 THE ART OF PURPOSE 🎨
Here at Poetry in Eden, along with my agents, creative director, and photo/film team, we aim to share what I have uncovered about the universal human search for meaning and purpose through philosophy and poetry.
I feel grateful this team has formed organically, and I know there is still a lot ahead of me, but I am not chasing anything. I am a creator, so art, ancient wisdom, and insight flows through me and then my heart knows, I must share it.
There is nothing straight forward or easy about being a full-time artist, so I understand how many artists fall to the wayside with dashed dreams, but since I know dashed dreams very well, my faith and perseverance is strong.
I am not in search for fame. My hope is that my work finds the people it needs to, and their life changes for the better in some big or small way, because life is beautiful, but life is hard. Pain is real and can also feel isolating, but we are never alone.
🌟 Soho House & Vanity Fair 🌟
I am an author, philosopher, and curator, and if you are in Europe or USA, you can further connect with me in the coming weeks:
THE ART OF PURPOSE curated and hosted by me on 20th May at Soho House Berlin. It felt incredibly exciting to finalize this new concept with the Soho House team over the past few months! Guest list or member registration in the Soho House app.
CROSSROADS by Lukas Feirrass on 28th May at Soho House Berlin. All are welcome.
VANITY FAIR print issue with a full page spread available to purchase in my hometowns, Massachusetts and New York in July 2025. I still cannot believe I was approached for this kind of exposure based on the excellence of one of the photoshoots I art-directed in Portugal. SOMEBODY PINCH ME!
✍️ About the film ✍️
I created the soundtrack, audio, and creative direction. Toni Jahn is the filmmaker and producer. Rebecca James is the overall creative director of the assets you see above, and THE ART OF PURPOSE logo & aesthetic.
My name is Felicia Ann Iyamu. I began writing poetry as a young girl, when the world became too big and too loud to understand. The page became my sanctuary and a compass; my quiet harbor in the storm of growing up.
Now, years later, I don’t just see myself as a poet, but as a philosopher. I am a seeker of truth, of purpose, of meaning. I have lived around the world in an attempt to understand others. In this way, I deeply understand myself with the tenderness of a woman unafraid to feel deeply and unconcerned with what others may think.
If our actions are unconscious, we are disconnected, repeating behaviours, patterns, and history. Consciousness brings us back to purity – to authenticity. Yes. Every pure woman is a priestess of Spirit. And every pure man is a guardian of Light. Our body is the temple and every tide is a prayer. I believe we can transcend our limitations and move into consciousness. There’s no perfect version of me. Just me feeling grateful for this moment: where I am me and you are you. Isn’t that its own kind of magic? Is there really something to prove? 🙏
My femininity — my softness, my strength, my playfulness — lights the way toward something greater. In my trail is a tender legacy of love. Of communion through words. Of creating, and creating evermore. So it is.
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