Tuva, Siberia, and Moscow

March 2014
35mm film and digital

Moscow: http://tedandmelissafurlife.blogspot.com/2015/06/a.html?m=1

Siberia: http://tedandmelissafurlife.blogspot.com/2015/07/blog-post.html?m=1

Trans-Siberian Railroad: http://tedandmelissafurlife.blogspot.com/2015/07/trans-siberian.html?m=1

Tuva (part one): http://tedandmelissafurlife.blogspot.com/2015/09/part-one.html?m=1

Tuva (part two): http://tedandmelissafurlife.blogspot.com/2015/10/part-two.html?m=1

Person jumping on the top of a bridge. Moscow March 2014
A shaman brought us to this ovaa one of our first nights in Tuva. An ovaa is a sacred place of concentrated spiritual power which are often in mountain passes. The shaman performed a ceremony on Melissa involving fire, milk, and wolf mimesis. March 2014.
While staying with neutrino physicists in Siberia on the frozen surface of Lake Baikal, there was no running water. So, no toilets, no showers...the physicists don't shower at all for two months, so we didn't for the five days we were here either. We got all our water from a small hole in the ice, which usually had to be broken apart with a spear each morning after it froze again. March 2014.