Sequenda

Candace Carter

Some decisions are life-changing. 1970, at the age of nineteen, I came to Germany. I wanted to study but many fields were not open to me as I did not speak the language nor did I have the German Abitur. When I found I could study on the Hamburg Art Academy I thought: Hmmm, maybe not my first choice but it would also have the advantage I would paint more than speak. And so, I ended up a fine arts artist. For many years I drew, painted and taught, eventually moving on to installation, performance and finally video. I also wrote, lectured and published but until 2015 these activities were more of a sideline. Then one morning in the fall of 2015 I woke up a voice in my head said: Write a novel. A novel? About what? About the good stuff, about what guides you and gives you strength and makes life worth living. Like the stories of John Irving, the sagas of J.R.R.Tolkien. So I switched in the middle of the stream and discovered, at the age of 64, that while I loved the fine arts, storytelling was even more me. It was my true calling. It is my true calling.

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