CURRENT MISSION

love life

ABOUT ME

Going traveling for a bit so I'm unable to host.

I live to love, to see and to make. I try to live with eyes and heart open. I am very silly.

My passions in life include drawing, printmaking, making zines, growing food, riding my bike, eating vegetables and reading comics.

I finished my BFA in drawing, painting and printmaking in 2008. You can see some of my work at martachudolinska.com and privatespectaclepress.tumblr.com.

In the day, I moonlight as a librarian at an Art and Design school where I oversee a library/studio space with a zine collection.

PHILOSOPHY

Don't be cool, be yourself.

Perché sono iscritto su Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Many a year ago, I took a road trip from Vancouver to Oregon in a big mama van with 6 of my closest friends. When we stopped in Eugene, we met a group of people hanging out on their porch who invited us into their home. We ended up staying the night, sharing stories, jars of wine and listening to sweet music. It was such a great serendipitous moment and a wonderful culmination of our trip (not to mention it was nice to not sleep in the van for a night). A few months later, I read an article about couchsurfing and was so happy to learn that I could have more experiences of the kind in the future. I have been hooked ever since!!

I have couchsurfed in New York, Amsterdam, and various places in Canada, Poland and Germany. I have met absolutely wonderful people through this site and have had the opportunity to see cities in the unique eyes of others. It's a safer method than hosteling and infinitely more rewarding. Hosting is a blast too- an opportunity to show off the city that I love.

Interessi

drawing, printmaking, writing, making zines, riding my bike, hiking and exploring nature, gardening, reading, canoeing, travelling (obviously), dancing, music, live music, people, life, love, change

• arts
• writing
• books
• design
• dancing
• education
• dining
• wine
• gardening
• boating
• comics
• reading
• traveling
• painting
• drawing
• music
• live music
• cycling
• hiking
• canoeing
• teaching
• mountains

Musica, film e libri

Movies by Werner Herzog, John Hughes, Richard Linklater, Wes Anderson and Pedro Almodovar. Taxi Driver, Lost In Translation, Dazed and Confused, Star Wars, Beautiful Losers.

Music of all sorts including Bowie, Leonard Cohen, Violent Femmes, Neil Young, Johnny Cash, Queen, Joni, Lou Reed, Patsy Cline, One Hundred Dollars, DD/MM/YYYY (R.I.P.), No Age, Library Voices, Fiery Furnaces, Holy Fuck, Magnetic Fields, Talking Heads, Japanther, Le Tigre, Women, Diamond Rings, The National, Of Montreal... Lots of old music, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s its all good. Nina Simone, Wanda Jackson, Tina Turner- just give me the woman with the big voice.

Books by Charles Bukowski, Al Purdy (best poetry of all time), Kurt Vonnegut (especially Breakfast of Champions), Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities", "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Kundera, "The Dispossessed" by Ursula Le Guin, all of Edward Albee's plays, Wislawa Szymborska, Alain de Botton, Raymond Williams, Jane Jacobs, Joseph Campbell, Bell Hooks, Roland Barthes, McLuhan... plus many graphic novels and zines, Epileptic by David B, Lilly Carre, Rutu Modan, Jason, Seth, Richard Sala, Lynda Barry, etc etc (librarian here... could talk about books for ages)

Una cosa incredibile che ho fatto

On top of the rocky mountains, where the whole horizon is the peaks of all the other mountains.
Going through the canals in Amsterdam at night in Dennis' classy boat.
Hiking around the coast of Newfoundland.

Insegna, impara, condividi

I have an art education, making drawings, paintings, prints and books. I can teach you how to make books, but as a warning, it requires patience.
I can also teach you how to eat a lot of potatoes.

Paesi che ho visitato

Germany, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, United States

Paesi in cui ho vissuto

Canada, Poland

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