Writing
It started when I wrote a story about mermaids. Then I wanted to do even more - I started writing everyday about fairies, dreams coming to life, any sort of escape from reality that also involved me and my notebook. It's been like that ever since I can remember conjuring a thought. Poetry intrigued me, movies implored me to tell my own stories, my own friends and experiences became empty canvases to create and create and create again. My likeness for fantastical storylines stayed ignited but manifested in a plethora of new ways as the years have trickled on.
Words act as smoke signals - sending messages and stories to anyone who listens; but only if you do so with intention and very carefully. Emily Dickinson wrote, "Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--" and I know that the underlying notions of truth are between the stanzas of our everyday, through the stories we tell, the feelings we so fearfully ignore. Gradually, through each day, with the world at our very fingertips, art and love serve as mere catalysts for poetic expression and the slanting truth.
And I love that.
I'm always looking for new ways to express myself and human feeling through words and art!! It makes all of this mean something.
Below you’ll find my senior capstone project where i explored why we feel inclined to create art
Here are my most recent projects…
COMING SOON
Violet Clarence is constantly hiding the embarrassing hindrance of her anxiety, while everyone at the high school thinks Silas Everett is a vampire or criminal because of an elongated and unexplained absence. After offering to give her a ride home when her car breaks down and to act as her fake-boyfriend to keep an abusive ex away, Violet is becoming more and more interested in Silas whether she likes it or not. Xander and Lydia, Violet's best friends, are surprisingly supportive of the situation, and take on Silas as a new friend. As their last year of high school unfolds, the fake relationship causes intense emotions to arise, and the newfound friend group grapples with some sharp twists and turns. Violet is scared to be close with people, and Silas' dwindling family dynamic becomes more and more dire for his support. Upon getting closer to one another, their secrets unravel inevitably. When it seems like their feelings might become more real than they ever expected, Violet and Silas are ripped apart from each other when life pulls them aside to differing paths post-graduation.
Five years later, Violet has done everything in her power to try to forget Silas, telling herself that it just wasn't meant to be. But she can't. It makes it immensely harder when she visits Trinity Point with her college boyfriend and has an unexpected run in with Silas. Their feelings for one another run deep and the magnetic pull to each other becomes harder and harder to ignore. When Silas introduces Violet to his parents and enigmatic sister, Eloise, Violet feels an indescribable comfort and connection. A story with a flickering hearth that emphasizes the importance of love and family, Just for Show expresses a multifaceted narrative about the ups and downs of friendships and relationships, as well as overcoming the seemingly unconquerable hurdle of mental illness.
In the small town of Trinity Point, Nebraska,
In a world where the ones she needs are seemingly in an eternal slumber, Isabella Kovar implores those around her to awaken themselves to everything around them—the good, the bad, the ugly. Everything.
Separated into five acts of heart wrenching and dreamy poetry,
I’m Still Awake acts as a cathartic diary for Kovar to express her qualms with her loved ones as well as how to love them, the many contradictory feelings she finds herself dealing with, and the endurance she must possess in order to come to terms with her own, inescapable reality. Finding slivers of the truth in her everyday life and slanted perceptions caused by the obstacle of her own psyche, this chapbook is a striking collection of poetry which dares to analyze the heavy burden of awareness, acceptance, and yearning for self-actualization. Hand-stitched with love by Bella herself.
Isabella Kovar loves a good epilogue, especially when her anxiety bothers her with the pressing question of whether she’ll make it out in one piece.
Hopelessly wondering if there’s an end in sight, Is it Over Yet? explores the haunting inquiry that longs for fulfillment. Contentment reachable or not, this collection of poems asks the reader to dig deep into their innermost desires, conflicts, and feelings deemed as indecipherable.
Kovar illustrates nostalgic recollections of her poor tendencies—longing and constantly dreaming about how her future can help her escape the past and present. The whispers of worrisome thoughts and slivers of hopeful dreams juxtapose her perception of reality, and these poetic recounts act as needed assistance that help her decipher the ever-changing nature of adulthood and the importance of becoming content with the inherent uncertainty that comes with it. This chapbook belongs on the bookshelves of those who find solace in
