E.D.W. Lynch // Evan Wagoner-Lynch

Part 1: Seattle

I operate under the understanding that hearing about other people’s travels is boring. In 2003 I came back from my semester abroad full of tales: The Time the Vienna Police Briefly Detained Me, The Time I Took the Wrong Bus in Sweden, The Unfortunate Series of Events on my 21st Birthday in Munich…

Boring, all boring.

However, I am compelled by various agreements with friends, family, and Gofundme backers to make some accounting for what is about to happen. So I have established this blog, with the following disclaimer:

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She knew that Hraktul and Gerdi would take the aurora blade if she did not.

So a word about what is going to happen. I am about to join the Everyhere Logistics project. Everyhere Logistics is a cross-country art expedition. Two teams of artists, one starting in San Francisco, and another in New York, will be traveling to the country’s Great Middle to join local artists in a series of pop-up exhibitions. The exhibitions, known as Lost Horizon Night Markets, feature art installations tucked into the unassuming confines of rented cargo trucks (think U-Haul.) The art installations are wildly different in nature, and include a noodle restaurant, a plate smashing gallery, and a travel agency. I am volunteering with the travel agency, where we will be enticing people to visit nearby cities in glamorous local vacations…locavations? Needs work.