{"id":13838,"date":"2025-09-25T10:22:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T09:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/?p=13838"},"modified":"2025-09-25T10:23:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T09:23:56","slug":"lena-ngoudjo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/2025\/09\/25\/lena-ngoudjo\/","title":{"rendered":"Lena Ngoudjo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Describe yourself in 3 words\u2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Nonsensical, mythical, mega-mind<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What inspires you?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Lived experiences, mainly my childhood &amp; noticing the patterns in life and how they cause<br>ripple effects. I want to create a voice for those who feel unheard to feel known,<br>understood &amp; nostalgic. I\u2019m strongly motivated through social political activism and building<br>a community for those of us that tend to get \u2018othered\u2019. Music, Mythology &amp; Art also inspire<br>me greatly, they portray unique methods of blending a creative thought together to tell<br>narratives, themes or just purely for a form of expression or emotional need. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tell us about your worst ever gig?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Honestly, for poetry gigs have been quite nice so far besides some awkward hiccups.<br>Though as a performance student some of the shows we did had nightmares, worst one was<br>being told to do a last minute show in a bar with no idea what we were performing. And we<br>were all dressed up as monsters doing improv movements, at this creepy bar in Dalston that<br>had holes in the floors and some drunk costumers would come into our performance space<br>without a ticket which just made things worse\u2026.I shudder at the memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What\u2019s your number one poetry pet peeve?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Not sure if this is a poetry pet peeve or more open mic one but I get annoyed at too many<br>hmmms and clicks during a set\u2026 is it necessary every second\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Whose words do you love at the moment?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Tongue. Therapeutic. Non-linear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What piece of advice would you give to your younger self?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep doing you, fully commit to the strangeness!! Don\u2019t be afraid to step out your comfort<br>zone and let\u2019s not stay hiding in the corners masked in fear of the unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A genie grants you one wish; what do you wish for?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A million more, I have a lot of dreams to be granted.<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-13838_617fdd-ef .kt-block-spacer{height:60px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-13838_617fdd-ef .kt-divider{border-top-width:1px;height:1px;border-top-color:#eee;width:80%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-13838_617fdd-ef\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\"\/><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ARVON-X-AS-82-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ARVON-X-AS-82-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ARVON-X-AS-82-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ARVON-X-AS-82-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ARVON-X-AS-82-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ARVON-X-AS-82-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ARVON-X-AS-82-scaled.jpg 1708w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lena Ngoudjo<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Lena is multidisciplinary artist woven by her obsession with undressing the raw beauty of the bare self through the complexities of self-expression and the merging realms intersecting culture and identity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My craft focuses on untangling Black expression and the strangeness of humanity amongst nature, often juxtaposing the joys and pains of life. 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