travelers wanted: you!

After our trip to Southeast Asia in Jan. 2007, each one of the travelers began thinking about ways of sharing our journeys and our discoveries with others. Some of us preached sermons, some blogged, some wrote poems, and some created visual art -- all this to recreate and deepen our experience of being immersed in multicultural experiences that have transformed our lives.

It became something of an obsession for me, HAT, which blossomed into ideas about writing a crown series of poetry. I collected some of the reflections written by fellow travelers and using them as material crafted a series of poems that expresses the myriad of encounters we experienced on-site. I engaged abbykk in the effort to render these meditations/reflections-turned-poetry as visual art. abbykk's artistic envisionings continue to change and transform, and the words-images are becoming, each day, more and more powerful re-interpretations (not exact, mind you) of the multitude of sights, sounds, and textures that we found on our journeys.

Countless meetings and discussions and emails have led us to this point, when we are able to proudly announce that we have exhibition dates (more details to come), we have a blog, we have email, we have the resources for funding (more forthcoming), and we have great hopes for whatever is ahead, for whatever we will find or unfind on our journey...

One definite resource we hope to find and keep is: you! If you are here reading this, you have already begun the expedition with us. We hope you will be curious enough to remain throughout the journey to find out what exactly we mean by "found" or "unfound".

We will offer you a mixed course of words and images that will shake things up and turn things around. We will question our assumptions and beliefs. We will overturn our misconceptions and interpretations. We will honor our cultures, flaws, and faiths. We will be bold. We will be humbled. We will be awed. We don't want to do this without you. But we will forge ahead. Unravel yourself enough to join us on this journey.