Serendipity
Living in Honduras as a foreigner is sometimes hard, mostly fun and never boring. Stranger Than Fiction was a title I considered for this Blog, because really… But this Blog is about more than just the oddities of my life in the not-so tranquil, cobble-stoned town of Copán Ruinas. Hence Serendipity, the gift of finding without seeking…
tags: Art, Copán, Honduras, Maya
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My name is Carin Steen, I'm an artist from Amsterdam, Holland. I've been living in Copán Ruinas for the past fifteen years. For 12 years, I directed the Cultural Association Arte Acción Copán Ruinas. Currently I work as an indpendent artist & designer.
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Maya Connections
Posted on 17/05/2013
Sorry, but this post is not about relationships with indigenous peoples. It’s about shopping. Or one shop in particular, actually. One of the good things (as well as the bad!) of...
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No Mother’s Day for me this year…
Posted on 11/05/2013
Dear Mothers… This post goes out to all the women in my life who are mothers, including my own. It’s for my closest friends who are mothers; but also for my neighbours;...
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Plastic Terror
Posted on 09/05/2013
Doña Berta's shopping bagI know, it’s a world wide problem. But as with a lot of things, in Honduras it seems to be worse. It might be a nuisance in other places, but here...
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The King: No Opinion
Posted on 30/04/2013
Living at the other side of the planet from where I was born and raised will always keep my heart in two places. As much as I love Honduras, as long as I’ve been here and as adapted...
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Living in the Most Dangerous Country in the World
Posted on 20/04/2013
Every day I wake up, shivering with fear, hoping I’ll make it to see the light of another day here in Honduras. I live behind doors enforced with triple bolt locks and I barely dare...
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Why I hate weddings
Posted on 15/04/2013
Oh, that dreadful moment when someone knocks on your door and stands there with the biggest smile, handing you an envelop with on it your misspelled name in golden...
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Brief Encounters of the Human Kind IV: Stripped
Posted on 09/04/2013
I wished I had a camera with me, because it was such a cute sight: two red moto-taxis standing side by side on a small sandy island in the middle of the Copán River. What we...
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World Famous in Copán Ruinas
Posted on 04/04/2013
Self Portrait 2013I’m a world famous artist in Copán Ruinas. That’s the lame joke I use whenever people say they see my work everywhere around town. It’s true, but...
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Pet Paradise
Posted on 24/03/2013
Dog (owner) meeting place in the Vondel Park, AmsterdamLast week I wrote about how children born in Honduras are (in some ways) less privileged than those from Holland, but that’s...
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The Privilege of Art
Posted on 20/03/2013
There are dozens of ways in which children born in Holland are privileged over the majority of those born in Honduras (although sometimes it’s the other way around!), but one that...
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