On my 7th day

by Shelly Nadashi, 7 Mar 2010

Dear readers,

I am in the Schloss Bröllin office now. Complete silence outside, we just finished eating Gulasch; Robert, Yoachim, Ildiko, Lila and myself. Every day we eat two meals together; lunch and dinner. Robert is German, Yoachim too, he is one of the establishers of the place, Ildiko is a Hungarian volunteer, she used to live in Debrezen, which is where my father comes from. Lila is my friend and an artist from Glasgow which I invited to join to this trip.

Yoachim was telling us of how they (I’m not sure exactly who ‘they’ are, perheps a group of theatre makers..) got in to schloss bröllin after the collapse of the soviet union. He described how everything in the east was under valued so you could get land, or other things very easily and cheap. People didn’t know how to price things at that time he said.

I spend my time here mostly on developing a puppetry work. Making the puppet is slow, but I am enjoying this slowness. I imagine the puppet like a mermaid, very sensual at the top part of her body, but nearly paralyzed in her lower part.

Good night,
Shelly