Welcome to The Transients Project.
Sometimes it’s easier to give everything up, pack your bags and just travel. But for most of us, life and its responsibilities stand in our way. Our dreams of roaming and traversing this earth probably goes as far as google and its cars and satellites will bring us to. So instead of relying on an autonomous driving car, one day, we decided to approach transients making a pit stop in San Francisco to share their stories with the rest of us.
This series explores why, how and where transients travel and what keeps them moving about. How do they travel about? What made them decide to leave? How do they survive?
Ever since that fateful day, we’ve been collecting and sharing their stories in hopes of helping the rest of us understand the life of a transient.
Collaboration Project: KC Hong, Wendy Ngo, Juliette Spirson, Andrea Rendradjaja
Avradelix Story
" Once in a while, with amazing luck, the world can be sweet for dreamers.
Not a lot of people are spreading messages of love and truth and that's what we wanna do, spread good vibrations and kinda make a positive impact on the world. We are trying to pull focus away from money and allow people to listen to truth and love for free.
The four of us set out to share our message and though it's not 1969 but 2012, we're needed now more than ever. Our parents coughed up donations and we saved up some of our financial aid. Then we filled our van with gas, musical instruments, a cat named Harmony and we just decided to hit the road.
Our band is called Avradelix. Isai and Karina are 19, Joanna’s 21 and Josh’s 20. We musically represent the hope we have for the future. We are all parts of a puzzle of an infinite love. The people we have met have miraculously helped us on the way, providing weed, a Willie Nelson ticket and even twenty dollars.
We’ve slept on beaches and got kicked off of them. We slid down a mountain path in Big Sur and realized we left home without any first aid. It's okay. It's the dream really. Shows in Venice Beach, Monterey and Santa Cruz. We started in San Diego and have just been driving up North. What's next? Whatever we can see before we have to get back so Isai can be at his mom's birthday party.
We've been running and fighting and being new people in each town, trying to be better versions of ourselves, swapping partners and writing lyrics. Eating cactus and seaweed. Putting off the day that we look back and think about what dumb kids we were."
By: Juliette Spirson
Photographer: Wendy Ngo
Photo Editor: Andrea Rendradjaja
Illustrator: KC Hong
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