At the end of March, I leave Thailand, for Vietnam. I recently had bad news. The residency in Hanoi closed down. I am still going and my contact there is going to hook me up with other artists and studio, hopefully. When I came to Thailand, my sole purpose was to hang out in a foreign country and make art, but I came to realized that isolation sucks. By coincidence, the past few months I have been able to find some other artists to hangout with, mostly other foreigners and I am more inspired now than I had been the first three months. I am not inspired by their work per se but by the fact that they are working. I thought I could come here and the newness of Thailand would inspire me and although I find it fascinating, it doesn't inspire me to create art. It is so new too me that it hasn't found it's way into my art yet except in subtle ways.
Although I am the only person in the world who doesn't LOVE Thailand, I think I am going to miss it. I know people here. I feel a bit settled here. Everyone keeps asking when I will come back, and I've been telling them that I might come back in summer since I have no other place to go. I am suppose to be in Vietnam April through June and I don't go to India until October. I believe my free months are the rainy season here. I am torn about what to do. I'd like to spend some time meditating but I would also like to find another residency where I could experiment with creating art that grows, which would be perfect during the rainy season.