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July 2009
Last evening we waited to mark the calves but the weather got so cold that the reindeer moved far down the mountain. Sunna arrived only yesterday and she has cleaned around the cabin. I washed all my clothes by hand and used a washboard. Until today a washboard was something that hung as decoration in a country home.
January 2010
I was asked today what it meant to live with a new culture. To immerse yourself with intention of learning and exchanging. I was asked what advice I would give other artists when thinking about doing the same. I answered that I think we should be extremely thoughtful that our projects are something we are whole-heartedly willing to engage in on a full time basis and that we are ready to be transformed because as an artist and as a person this type of experience will strip away numerous layers of yourself and many preconceived ideas we may have had about our work, why you are doing it and about life in general. However the most important thing I believe it will give us a greater understanding of what it means to be human.