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If I haven’t said already, I’m doing another university degree. It’s in business and management.

This blog has been a great project for me, & it’s let other people to see how (/or what) I’m doing.

This has been a great virtual diary to track my progress though this difficult time for me. I’ve used it to remind me because I’m still working on my memory.

So as this has been a great way to append my leisure time, I think my focus will be on my degree.

Alphonse Mucha was a Czech painter, strange because I didn’t think I would associate the Czech Republic with artistic greatness but I do like his art.

He also did illustrations & graphics as well as paintings, with some decorative additions so he really did take advantage of how commercial his art is.

What he is known best for is his stylised paintings, they are mixing art & advertising I guess

Where I came to love Mucha , is these fabulous leggings. They don’t look black but that’s what they’re named on the website. Maybe you can have a pair too, & love them like I do. Get them at ;

https://blackmilkclothing.com/mucha-black-leggings

Read my post before you make your judgment (it’s not a pop up)

The piece of art you see above is called “International Klein Blue” & I truly love it. I loved it before I had a brain injury, & I’ll try to make you love it too.

This piece of art looks like a page printed blue by my a computer. But it’s not. Klein painted so carefully that you can’t see any brush strokes. To most people they aren’t impressed because you can’t see the technical effort.

I am impressed by the art because the technical side is perfect. With this piece it’s so perfect it looks like a computer did it.

It could be perceived as a comment of the blurring lines of humans & computers.

The dada (or Dadaism) movement was an artistic movement in the early decades of the 1900s. This movement was mainly in Europe, it did however go to the states, starting in New York, where dada began around 1915. It had a kind of tongue in cheek philosophy behind each piece.

Paris seems to be ahead of the time for art, & around 1920 dadaism grew in a big way in Paris.

Marcel Duchamp is a good example of this moment.

As art has an effect on culture, Dadaist behaviours carried on after the artic movement did, & the Dadaist behaviours carried on until the late 1920s.

I am thinking that we are in another situation like the Dada time, hence the title. There seems to be a big renaissance in technology, in particular social media. Maybe I’m just looking @ it though rose tinted spectacles.

I chose the colour without knowing the connotation. My walls were recently painted. I wanted to make my current residency to be more like me, so I chose the colour & shade that appealed to me most. You can see what it looks like at the moment:

I only recently became aware of the connection, after it was finished. But I think it’s quite fitting.

The green room is a term often used in show business, it is a space behind the theatre which is kind of like a preparing room for the oncoming show.

So I guess this is my green room for the rest of my life. I’m in rehab & building an updated version of Leuty. I’m starting a university course in business & management, so it comes all together; new residency, new carers, new career subject, new furniture but the same me who forgot a lot from her past life, & the same glorious friends who have kept me going through this difficult time.

Here’s a break down of my progress throughout my journey of my recovery from the brain injury.

First of all, I had a brain injury when falling off a motorcycle & since then, I’ve been recovering. I went into detail the medical specifications though.

1 x day in Danang (Vietnam)
8 x months in Bumrungrad (Thailand)
6 x weeks in western general (Edinburgh)
approx x 1 year Astley ainslie (Edinburgh)

It seems that I travelled all around the world, wish I could remember it!

Currently at wardieburn, I’ve been here approximately 1 year 10 months.

Hopefully not for much longer though.