About the Book
Sugar’s diaries are an insight into her emotional life while she travels across the world.
The first five years she was living happily in London where she studied Iaido, the art of the Samurai sword. This led her to go to Japan to take part in a martial arts expo.
She was then fortunate to be able to travel to some countries in the Middle East, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Israel, some of which have since been decimated by war.
In London she fell in love with a New Zealand national and decided to marry and move with him to the bush in New South Wales, Australia, but the marriage broke up after five years and she was left to live alone on the isolated bush block. The animals that lived in and around the house helped her survival and sanity. Sugar became so well acquainted with each animal that she could spot individual animals by sight. She also loved having visits from visiting insects, which became a valuable part of her world.
About the Creator
English born artist and photographer Su Garfinkle adopted the name Sugar Finkle after a boarding pass on a Japanese airplane accidently re-named her. In 1979 she graduated from Darby College of Art, with a diploma in Creative Photography and moved to Los Angeles. With little money, trying to survive in the city was a struggle, and it was then she started creating her drawn diaries. The diaries were a cathartic release for her as she went through periods of extreme depression. As an artist she expressed herself both in drawings and photography. The drawings were an expression of her inner emotions whilst her travel photography captured the world around her. Due to the heavy smog in Los Angeles she was hospitalised every month with severe asthma attacks, which finally made her move to San Francisco. Five years later she “left her heart in San Francisco” and relocated to New York where she resided for eight years. During that period she travelled widely including to South East Asi