7. Project 2

Here’s the pdf file with the written assignment:

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The written component. I struggled a bit with making it work. When approaching a written assignment, especially touching on conceptual topics, I have a hunch, a feeling where it could go. But it takes a lot of effort to get there and make it make as much sense on a paper as earlier in my head.

It always reminds me about what Michelangelo once said:

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

And this time it was, again, slightly harder than previously, because I wanted to show a few concepts in parallel, without connecting them by force, and leaving some space for imagination to fill in the gaps.

So on one hand, I had to uncover just enough to make some things clear, but on the other not to define it too much, not to set the relationship between the components, but leave it a bit hazy, a bit vague.

Also, I wanted to leave those texts sort of unfinished, just throwing the idea out there, just making an observation, asking a question, linking some things together, but in the end not making strong statements that would close the topic.

And sometimes I simply didn’t know how to close it. I had the urge to make some conclusion, there was some sort of unease connected to leaving the chain of thoughts open. But perhaps that’s for the better.