I feel a little back not having posted anything since January. The banal truth is that I was simply very busy at work: exams after the Christmas, getting back to teaching, finalizing a couple of publications, starting back with supervision and the best was testing a new robotic prototype, at the last minute of course, but it went fine and now we are planning for publications, plus we are getting more data on our computational thinking project together with my better half :) I neglected my little project No Small Parts, which I am resuming from this week. At the moment I have been fascinated by the changing landscape. We had a late snow in Denmark and I love snow, so I started looking at how the snow made the landscape more oneiric adding masses, shapes, lines and patterns, and more and more. All together I feel overwhelmed of stimuli and of things to do, and I wonder: Will My Wings Make It? I feel exactly like my little, chubby lady with butterfly wings, which I have put in my calendar for February, I am not sure!
I feel like her, heavy and not so beautiful, but maybe a bit cute in my chubbiness, but I have dreams and I want to pursue them, like the lady has beautiful blue butterfly wings. The weight of her body should also symbolise the harshness of reality, fears and especially the fear of feeling inadequate, her light butterfly wings might not be strong enough to enable her to fly away of the canyon. I chose a canyon remembering of the time when I visited a bit of the Grand Canyon in the USA and also because it represents a harsh discontinuous territory, which can be crossed only flying. Moreover, I painted the wings blue indicating hopes and dreams and also to make maximum contrast between the orange of the canyon, again to emphasise the contrast between harshness and dreams. Now back to try to fly Emma
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May 2023
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