Biography Maya Lichthart is an anarchic, autistic, non-binary Prop Poet™, meaning they add personal scenery when reciting. Maya creates from within themselves, but for others. They translate mental ailments and other abstractions into simpler things, in a hopeful way and with a golden edge.
About the Project Maya Lichthart creates from themselves but for others, aiming to make difficult things easier. They do this in this project with the help of their ‘little men’. These little men represent certain (mental) ailments they have. Originating from the need to visualize their ailments, the idea is to turn abstractions in your head into small personas. By visualizing and simplifying them into just a ‘little man,’ you take away their power. I share this idea of reducing your ailments to little men with my audience in a poetry performance where you are invited to make your own little man.