I now find it refreshing to locate myself in a place where I know very little about my surroundings. Like many travellers before me to experience a new country is full of all kinds of interesting challenges. All day every day is a learning experience, and of course nothing is what it seems. One fantastic big dream seen through rose tinted glasses. Food is amazing because you don't have to cook it and its so much better than what you can get at home. Conversations are polite because of language barriers and people are hospitable because they are proud of their place in the world, they want you to take a good impression away with you. To be on the outside again observing and being observed is a welcome change to my current environment that now feels too familiar. This coupled with the challenge of making new work within a limited amount of time provided the components for an exciting four weeks.

I found it incredibly difficult to take my notions of how humans co-exist and apply them to a culture unknown to me. Dare I assume that I could make work that felt like mine? Of course what I thought I would like to do and what I did shifted once I began. Which opened my eyes to new possibilities within my practice.

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