rubin museum: CURRENT ARTWORK CREATED IN CHIANG MAI, THAILAND

23 Eylül 2012 Pazar

CURRENT ARTWORK CREATED IN CHIANG MAI, THAILAND

I'm currently in Chiang Mai, Thailand as part of my yearly exodus from NYC during my birthday month. This year, I've decided to return to Chiang Mai after having been here in January as part of the inaugural team of Volunteer Positive. My experience was so enlightening at the time and I met some wonderful people while here initially, I decided to come back on my own in order to expand on the previous experience, in order to draw, paint, explore, volunteer with Cultural Canvas/ Art Relief International, and celebrate my own life.

I will not bore you with the details of traveling on a buddy pass internationally, suffice it to say, I appreciate the $ I saved, the generosity of my friend Edie, (and the upgraded travel on the first leg of the trip to Business Class), but I did end up traveling an entire extra day. I left my apartment on Weds, September 5 at 10:30 a.m. and reached my destination at 9 a.m., Saturday the 8th. That includes an 11 hour time difference. Either way you look at it, I was a mess by the time I arrived in Chiang Mai. The initial flights 2 hour delay in NYC creating the avalanche of missed flights that followed, and being on a buddy pass meant I was rescheduled at the airlines convenience, not mine. Please note: I am not complaining about any of this, just relaying information to anyone else who might be interested in traveling internationally on a buddy pass with standby tickets.

Alas, that already seems like months past. I am now quite happily engrossed in my travels in Chiang Mai and want to use this page as a means to show the artwork I have created so far, including a couple of the drawing I did in transit.

I hope you enjoy and come back as I will be adding more images as I finish them, and then eventually as I return to NYC, scan, cut and print my new "Chiang Mai September 2012" Portfolio. I will be selling prints form this Portfolio as well as from my "Chiang Mai - January 2012" Portfolio in order to return to volunteer with Volunteer Positive in February 2013.

LEAVING NARITA FOR BANGKOK