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lady k couldn’t part with our art, so before we escaped, she made eleven 8 x 10 color prints of her / my / our pieces. wherever we go, she tapes them about so we have a small traveling gallery of us – except in france where she was too busy making new art to hang old. here, i taped them in a line eleven long leaning against the empty wall – a condensed essence of smiths art show. welcome to smith family gallery marrakech – 4 floors up, by appointment / apportionment only.

tonight we’ll have our first viewers – a berber family lady k’s having to dinner. we’re showing our art to the world one family at a time. but what we lose in time, we make up in volume.

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told lady she’s a good looking woman on the outside, but more importantly, she has smarts, talent, and a good heart. eventually flesh sags, wrinkles, spots, discolors, decays, falls away – no matter how good it gets, flesh always fails – all flesh fails. when the outside goes to shit, it’s what’s inside that counts. (sounds like a good bumper sticker.)

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i spend my time writing, thinking, walking around, absorbing surroundings, taking photos, interfacing with lady k, and getting stoned each night. a decent life. the purpose of this adventure is to stimulate our creative juices, find the who we are, rather than aren’t. seems to be working.

i’m down to 173 pounds – that’s 3 pounds gone this week alone, 17 pounds down past 4 months. keep this up and the are i am will be aren’t. marrakech giveth and marrakech taketh away. my computer recharger died – marrakech electricity killed it. if lady’s goes, we’re screwed because we write, process fotos, and blog with these things. we’ve become borg people, human / cyber symbiots.

we watched the sun set, listened to sunset prayers on the roof last night. the prayers are amplified, sound like mass monk drone chant. from the top of a 6 floor building, you can look out over the tops of the roof tops of marrakech, see the mountains beyond. the only thing taller than 6 stories are the minarets… i counted over 40 minaret towers in a 360 roof top sweep. this is the only city i’ve seen you can see over.

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marrakech is 4,028 miles from from cleveland ohio, but it’s taken us 9 months and 12,000 miles to get here.

left cleveland august 1, 2006. went to chicago to london to north england to london to amsterdam to london to lodz poland to krakow to lodz to london to pula croatia to trieste italy to venice to pula to beziers france to barcelona spain to madrid to marrakech morocco – plus side trips.

we sold our studio and gave away our possessions, so we have no place to return to. have limited funds and no money coming in, so cannot wander forever. everything always costs more than expected.

lady k has nepal in her sights soon, but is thinking tunisia and algiers first because we’re already in africa (and i suspect because she can keep practising her french in those 2 countries). nepal is 7,591 miles from cleveland… i tell you, when lady k leaves a town, she really leaves.

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