My name is Rucavanné van Wyk, no scratch that, it's Cavy. My institutional scholar background consists of Psychology, English Literature, Linguistics, and Film, Visual and Performing Arts, but life remains my main educator and I believe in the idea of opening yourself up to what really resonates within you and educating yourself as much as you can on that regard. I started writing creatively for myself when I was fifteen (15) years of age; beginning with short stories, until my writing growth naturally led me to smaller more compact writing structures of poetry and prose, or what I like to simply call, verse writing. Somewhat gone are the days when Poetry and Poets were celebrated as central figures in Art and Culture movements and the creative industry. In fact, it accounts for the entire mode of writing. Writers - creators and mediators of languages, stories and thought - are at the core of what dominates the creative industry today: Music, and Film and Video content. Both art forms which I adore, but like all the others they have been commercialised to form part of the world economy which runs the world on a macro global level, and through that, imaging and branding (that can lead to celebrity status) have become the selling point, Uncle Sam's pitch and call for people who would like to pursue careers in the art and creative industry. This has lessened the purity and natural manifestation of what creativity should be, this has pushed the writer somewhere into the corner of the office in a small cubicle space, having to serve the brand. The publishing industry, the literature writer's commercial system, works to find a very few percentage of the world's talented writers out there and then goes on to pay them in royalties (royalty: a percentage of sales of a particular product) of a little less than a quarter of the overall sales in most cases (source). This isn't totally bad because somewhere in all of that another portion of the money involved (even if it's small) pays for the book printers, the people driving the shipment of book copies from the publishing house to retail bookstores, the people working in the bookstores themselves - it keeps the current economic setup ticking along. However, in most cases, most of that money stays with the publishing company's owners and is used to service the brand, it goes to the lawyers and accountants running the business side of the operation. Meaning the economic setup does not prize the true artistry and creativity as most important. This business-oriented method is similar for many of the leading record labels (read: music) and production companies (read: film) as well out there in the world. Often leading to many talented creatives being shunned, excluded and rejected by these commercial systems, because the system only rides on what is hot, popping and trending at each current moment in order to keep the money cycle flowing. Leaving many young aspiring creatives frustrated because they have been taught there is a certain way to "make it", and if that way does not work out, their creative passion (a fundamental spiritual lifetime drive) diminishes. And with that, the system picks the stories which we read and see on the screen today, putting out the flame of many other inspiring stories out there. It puts us in the mind-space of believing that that which the industry puts out into print and on the screen is the best that there is. It automatically becomes the benchmark that we judge artistry by, but what about the others that didn't "make it", where do their pure human stories go?

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This is my attempt of putting my stories and my creativity out there. Writing is obviously an extension of language, and language to me is a creator of thought and ideas, and a fundamental part of my expression. Humans need to express themselves. Therefore, I take expressive musing in what I say and how I say it. I do not care much for strict grammatical rules, pompous words and abiding to any other structure's censorship rules. Through writing, I challenge the words that the English language has given to me. I challenge labels and connotations that go with these words. I test which words can go together, and in what rhythm and in which pattern to shape my thoughts and express myself. So, I know we live in a world of short attention spans and swiping left, right, up and down in immediacy, but if you've made it this far, I'd like to welcome you and thank you to what will be a journey and an important part of me. This site's creativity has three sections:

• Poetry Singles - these are poems and verses that exist on their own. I write a lot, and a lot of what I write will not make it onto this site. Only those which I deem progressive and important in my writing and creative journey will be published.

• Poetry Albums - these are poems and poetic anecdotes that I have specially constructed and compiled together to fit an overarching conceptual work, themes, motifs and/or moods. To a larger extend they represent picturesque instances (whether physical, psychospiritual and/or emotional) that I have been going through in and around the time of creation towards publication.

• Essays & Short Stories - stimulating my scientific brain with my essays you can find more conventional and formal musings on everyday culture, art, psychology, and politics. With my short stories, I attempt to mix conventional storytelling with my own unique form of longer form creativity.

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And so, that's the gist of it. Some do find my writing a bit intricate, because it is, I love double (or maybe even multiple) meanings, and odd and varied allusions and references here and there, but it exists as it comes out of me and I promise there is emotion and meaning-making behind it. So I would tremendously appreciate it if you stick around and subscribe, and if just one line, just one line touches you or makes you feel some type of way, I would equally appreciate it if you share this site on whichever social platforms you make use of.