Japanese artist Sakura Hanafusa made an artwork to interact with - her hand carved, high fiving cat sculpture 'High Seven', 2016, modelled on her family cats #womensart
Thinking about that UCL study from 2017 that said audience heart beats can start to synchronise during live theatre performances. 🎭💞
'Experiencing the live theatre performance was extraordinary enough to overcome group differences & produce a common physiological experience.'
Brilliant:
When the euro bank notes were designed, they used European-style bridges which were *non-existing*, not to have to choose between countries.
The Dutch town of Spijkenisse claimed them all for the Netherlands by building them on a waterway.
International names for the @ symbol:
8. Alpha twirl (Norwegian)
7. Strudel (Hebrew)
6. Little dog (Russian)
5. Moon’s ear (Kazakh)
4. Meow sign (Finnish)
3. Elephant’s trunk (Danish)
2. Little monkey’s bollock (Dutch)
1. The “at” symbol (English, the language of Shakespeare)
Glory by @clairecurneen in the memento mori room in 'In Living Memory' at Emo Court. 'Curneen’s work offers us a precious liminal space of contemplation, like an altar or an icon but crucially, if there is devotion here, it is to humanity and creativity.' Teleri Lloyd-Jones.
Honoured to have been awarded this magnificent trophy for “outstanding contributions to design engineering” by the @InstEngDes. Such an incredible roll call of names around the base - Sir J. Ive, Heatherwick, Baylis, Dyson etc. In the 35yr history of the prize, I’m the 1st woman!