Lady luck at times appears a little whimsical as to where her gaze falls, and it certainly wasn't shining on us when we left the UK on our journey to Bogota. More to the point French air traffic control was on strike which meant that French air space was closed and we missed our connecting flight in Madrid. So after a night in a hotel on the outskirts of the Spanish capital we caught our flight and arrived safe and sound in Bogota. This time we sailed through customs who, for some reason, appeared not to be paying much attention to the screen when our equipment laden bags passed through the x-ray machine. So lady Luck was at last taking notice as we rushed a little disbelieving through the airport to meet our welcome party.
As soon as we left the airport building I was rushed in a car to meet with the founder of a charity called CIREC. It was a little overwhelming at first but eventually the importance of a collaboration with CIREC became apparent. We are going to be setting up a studio with CIREC in a place called EL Salado, and this was an initial coming together to become aquainted with each other.
CIREC is an amazing organisation that works on a variety of projects, in particular rehabilitating landmine victims from around the country. They make prosthetic limbs for the victims and have at their headquarters the facilities for said rehabilitation. As I was given a tour of the facilities I was really struck by the importance of their work - 2 people get blown up by landmines every day in Colombia - and came to realise how important it is for us to collaborate with them. I will write more about El Salado and what CIREC are doing there, for the moment we are starting to measure up the space for our new studio in Bogota and have to get to it, so I'm off.
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