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The past decade
Marcela Nievas

Argentina

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The past decade, I graduated as a teacher but secretly wanted to be a journalist or a dancer. I have been an English teacher everywhere from London to a remote university in northwest China. I have been to twenty countries. I have been a waitress (many times in Melbourne, and at the Edinburgh airport), a nude artist’s model, an art gallery curator, an exhibition curator in Chinese villages, a TV news editor, a photographer, a performer, an activist. I have sung in Chinese on the back of a live buffalo for a national TV show in China and a live audience of thirty thousand and danced on a boathouse in Prague — and got paid for both! I have assisted my mother and sister in childbirth. I have been in love and have been loved many times. I have destroyed love and felt the darkness of loneliness. I have been lost in depression. I have climbed Mount Olympus in Greece. I have lived in a former brothel in London and with ten musicians in a factory in Melbourne. I have made many friends scattered across the planet. I have published a short story. I have had a solo photography exhibition. Several newspaper articles have been written about me. After ten years, I have returned to university. I have been chosen to work as a visual artist in Spain next year. I have started to learn how to forgive myself for mistakes. . . . I look forward to falling in love, really in love, looking into the eyes of my children, laughing a lot, gaining more knowledge and maybe even a little wisdom, continuing to create as a photographer and performer, being inspired by people and places, working towards a better world, discovering new paths.

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