Travelling to Poland soon!

I am an artist and I work with sound, I also like making things - at the moment I am learning to sew and mend cloths . For a job I run art workshops for children and artists with learning disabilities. I am also interested in plants, especially edible things that can be found in the unexpected wilderness of a city.

I have recently discovered an interest in anthropology and think its important for us to look to ancient knowledge to help build our future on earth.

I love to travel and my quest is to discover more of the UK and Europe.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I am here to meet people, strangers, friends, to hear stories, myths and perspectives of a city.

I do not have facebook so I cannot be verified that way, though I would prefer to connect with people in other ways.. I could write a letter?

Interests

cinema - dark room, big screen

recording sounds, playing music; cornet, piano, noise with pedals and amplifiers

mudlarking (wading around the shore of the Thames river in search of treasure and teeth!)

eating delicious food, attempting to cook, vegetarian/fish food, baking and pickling!

looking for adventure in everyday activities

• dancing
• vegetarian
• yoga
• traveling
• music
• cycling
• mountains
• nature
• the environment
• playing football
• foraging
• fermentation
• making things
• sound recording
• radical anthropology

Music, Movies, and Books

/////MUSIC///// a lot and all sorts. Laurie Anderson, Baligh Hamdi, The Beatles, Throbbing Gristle, Lounge Lizards, Micachu and the Shapes, Wandagroup, Black Dice, Matthew Herbert, Ghedalia Tazartes, Talking Heads, Destinys Child, The Velvet Underground, John Maus, Bowie Bowie Bowie, The Knife, Connan Mockasin, Ariel Pink.

////MOVIES//// Chungking Express, Salaam Cinema, Stop Making Sense, Crumb, The General, Heavens Gate, Blue, Interstellar, Down By Law and The Adventures of Prince Achmed. Also Ozu, Ingmar Bergman, Woody Allen.

////BOOKS//// Brave New World, Invisible Cities, The Grapes of Wrath, Kurt Vonnegut, The Invention of Morel, Poetics of Space. John Berger.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Riding on a horse pulled cart through the foothills of the Transylvanian mountains

Teach, Learn, Share

I would love to learn card games!

I can teach how to spot edible plants in nature.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Helping hands
Technical skills
Cake baking
Kimchee making
Foraging knowledge
Clothes mending

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Germany, India, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Spain, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom, United States