Where Art Thou: A New Travel Show Explores the World Through Art

[quote_simple]“So I was working in Boston and I had a kind of a spell of… I guess; a boring life. So I decided to leave” –Terhys Persad[/quote_simple] Terhys is the creator of a forthcoming web series Where Art Thou, a travel show that explores a different country each season through the art that country produces. The first season explores South Africa (shout out to the homeland!) through a number of local artists and their work. The debut episode drops on Friday, March 31, with a new episode coming out each month. Here’s the preview trailer:

Talking to Terhys, her love of travel and her joy and willingness to venture into the great unknown is evident. At 17 she decided to move to Brazil, “I didn’t even know they spoke Portuguese there before I decided to move,” she tells me. Caribbean-born and States-raised Terhys had just returned from a visit home to Anguilla when I caught up with her over Skype. Now, I am not proud to say it, but since it’s just us here I will confess; I had to Google Anguilla. It is a small Caribbean island situated east of Puerto Rico and north of St. Martin with a total land surface of 90km2. The Valley is it’s capital. But there is only so much you can learn about a place from Wikipedia and Anguilla is of course so much more than that. This, in part, was what planted the seed for what would grow into Where Art Thou. Terhys says she was always aware of the difference between the way Americans saw the Caribbean and the way she saw the Caribbean, and pa…