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Singapore Writers Festival 2025: How poet Victoria Chang handles grief using numbers
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American poet Victoria Chang, author of With My Back To The World (2024), will deliver a masterclass talk on geometry in art and grief at the Singapore Writers Festival.
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SINGAPORE – American poet Victoria Chang likes to count – the number of grids in an Agnes Martin painting, the syllables on her fingers, how many times her father fell after a stroke, the days leading up to his death.
“When I feel stressed, I start to breathe and count. It’s a form of meditation – numbers are very soothing to me,” says the 54-year-old daughter of a mathematics teacher and an engineer, and sister to a percussionist. She grew up in a “quantitative family”.
