Toni remembered me on my birthday and gave me a set of quartet cards that he has designs. Here is one example. I think they are super!
The winter has been tough on me including some major disappointments. Therefore I needed some new inspiration and time to find myself. The past weeks I spent in Caorle a beach resort in north Italy. This time of the year it is quite empty, but this is just what I needed. I found inspiration to return to a photo series I have been working on earlier in Russia and Ukraine. The photo series is called “Faceless”. So the past weeks have been very good and I am fresh to return to creative work again. The bits of the puzzle are falling on their places again, because I have now a 3 month opportunity to work in an artist in residency in Austria. My plan is to finish the “Faceless” series, to exhibit it, and I have already received interest for the artwork from various art buyers.
Looks like spring is full of sun!
The end of the week has truly been unlucky…First Peter’s visa gets rejected and then I get sic. Since Friday evening I have been in bed. I feel tired, I have muscle aches and a seriously bad head ache and some fever. Because I took the Yellow fever shot on Friday and all these symptoms started after that I got seriously scared. So I called the doctor, it looks like I am one of the 2-5% of people who is over sensitive to the yellow fever vaccination 😦 My sister is now at my place to monitor me. If it get worse I should be taken to the hospital. Yet most probably I should get better in some days.
I decided now NOT to travel to Dakar. It is a hard decision, I really wanted to go, but I have my reasons. I am a person who believes in destiny and the chain of events the past days is telling me not to go to Dakar. I am also feeling too week to take care of packing and other travel arrangements. Senegal and Dakar has to happen an other time…
Now back to bed, even writing a blog post makes me exhausted.
The trip to Senegal is on hold now 😦 Peter can’t get a visa and now I have to decide if I go to Senegal alone or not. I don’t feel quite secure going there alone as a woman, yet if I feel that the organizers can take care of my security, I would really much still want to go. I got the yellow fever shot today, though I have been feeling a bit weird since then and super tired. That is why I wont make a decision about it today. I will sleep over it, make some research and decide tomorrow if I go without Peter or not.
Now I have a cup of tea and a good night sleep and hopefully I feel better tomorrow…and my brain starts to work again.
On monday Peter took our visas to the Embassy in Zürih so our visas are now in process. Everything is happening super fast, because we need to be in Dakar 30th of October so in less than two weeks. We have a hotel booking, in the end Peter had to make it him self, because the hotel they were offering from the festival was very bad. So we have now reservations in Hotel Farid. Peter sent me a link: It looks very nice.
I also learned that we have to get Yellow Fever vaccinations before we go to Senegal, so earlier today I called the local “Travel Clinic” and got an appointment for Friday. I don’t like the needles, but it is a small thing if it makes it more secure to travel.
I am also busy to prepare the photos that are sent separately to Senegal with DHL I think… Toni is fixing the details, I am just preparing the package 🙂 Here a image of the package that hopefully will leave in a couple of days to Senegal !!!
Back to preparations…I am already starting to make a list of what I should pack.
I also made some research what to do in Dakar. We are going to stay there for a week so besides the opening and the set up of my work I hope to have some time to go sightseeing and maybe to the beach 🙂
Here are some places I want to see. Made it a Google map so I can print it and take it with me!
I started to research a bit about Dakar and Senegal, so that I know where I end up next week 🙂
Images Dakar
Wikipedia Senegal
Video Dakar
Travel Documentation Senegal, Part 1
(c) Heidi Humpfburg, 2010
