How did I even reach here?
TURKEY | Sunday, 3 May 2015 | Views [131] | Scholarship Entry
I had already planned this.Left my work after completing my projects,packed my minimalist bags,did the paperwork for my visa and left.I have not looked back since then.
My travel took me first to an artist residency in Slovenia where I collaborated with a Japanese artist on an artist
book and an exhibition,this collaboration took us through a live filming of bees in a space like costume ,
honey tasting,along with interviewing local rock stars and cool young people.I have images in my head of eating
ice cream and riding bicycles through the vast green areas.
After a month in Slovenia,I jumped at an opportunity to go to Turkey to join a group of lovely ladies/dancers in a
workshop of silk road dancing,where i found myself experimenting with Persian,Tajik,local Turkish and sufi whirling.
After whirling though Cappadocia,Konya, and other spiritually charged areas in Turkey,we headed to a sufi festival
where we whirled non stop for a whole week in a green natural setting to live music.It was a mesmerizing experience
and i remember having a huge white moth on my back for 2 hours while I whirled.It was perhaps past experiences that are leaving me,memories,feelings.I took it as a sign;it was the beginning of a new life for me.I was left alone after that back in Istanbul where I roamed the city,as an urban vagabond,I visited free art galleries,took photographs of street art and danced to world street music,volunteered in festivals and got free tickets for events just by connecting with people:)I moved many hostels due to high season and not knowing where i will be in the next few days,so I got to be friends with many hostel people who were mainly foreigner themselves,so they had the same curious eyes and spirit as me and gave me some tips here and there,tried my hand at couch surfing with an indian guy who took me for a tea across a lovely view of a bridge on the bosphorus along with trying out an indian restaurant in Istanbul and eating falafels.Again my couch surfing adventure took me along to meet a local tai chi master who sailed across many seas,it was such an inspiring moment.My intuition is really what takes me through many little adventures,a brochure,a poster,a colorful corner,following tourists or people just to see where i end up.
I had a chance to volunteer at a yoga retreat in a beautiful place on the Islands and flew to camp out in areas around Datca ,taking boat trips along lovely bays and eating out under a street lamp . travel.dream.
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