Debbie HillAliyah

Debbie’s reasons for moving here are more personal than artistic. "I traveled around the States and Mexico and Europe and got hooked here. It's a fascinating place and I felt so connected. It felt like home - which didn’t make a bit of sense. But I just kept coming back and staying and staying, until, for one reason or another, I had to leave.

I'd feel this heaviness. I’d go to the States and wake up in the mornings and I soon as I would open my eyes and realize I wasn’t here, I’d feel this heaviness inside, start my day on a down. I had this huge connection - but it took me a lot of years to decide what to do. I'd come here and stay six, seven months and think, 'this time, I'll be done with it.' But I never was. So I moved."

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