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On Eggs — Part 3

Jan 10, 2024, 4 min read

On Eggs — Part 3

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  • Leading up to any talk or presentation, people are going to ask you what it’s about. I enjoyed simply stating “it’s about eggs” and receiving smiles and questions in return. Having eggs as an entry-point for conversation was fun and mysterious. I also loved thinking about my audience seeing eggs anew at breakfast the following morning, maybe thinking of me and the ideas I shared. I love how art is intertwined with memory, weaving itself into everyday life, acting as a portal. (View Highlight)

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  • Others might call it a support structure, as Édouard tweeted, “more often than not, the most meaningful human activity boils down to providing support structures for one another.” (View Highlight)
  • If there is anything specific I learned from giving this talk, it’s that the word “honor” is important to me. As I mentioned, I have this theory that when artists use eggs in their work, often they are simply “honoring” them. In other words, they are pointing to the egg somehow: so that we can see it anew, as if for the first time. I have this other theory that design is simply about creating entrances and exits. Maybe a good entrance allows someone to be curious, to see something anew. (View Highlight)
  • “I only make odes,” I tweeted to myself last year. As defined by Wikipedia:

    An ode (from Ancient Greek: ᾠδή, romanized: ōdḗ) is a type of lyric poetry. Odes are elaborately structured poems praising or glorifying an event or individual, describing nature intellectually as well as emotionally. Odes celebrate the worth or influence of another person or thing. In creating odes in various mediums, I don’t mean to be nostalgic or overly obsessed with the past. I believe we can help people see things anew through re-presentation or re-circulation. We can design entrances, exits, and systems to do this well. (View Highlight)

title: “On Eggs — Part 3” author: “Laurel Schwulst” url: ”https://anotherdayinthedome.substack.com/p/on-eggs-part-3-secret?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=11012&post_id=136529641&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email” date: 2023-12-19 source: reader tags: media/articles

On Eggs — Part 3

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  • Leading up to any talk or presentation, people are going to ask you what it’s about. I enjoyed simply stating “it’s about eggs” and receiving smiles and questions in return. Having eggs as an entry-point for conversation was fun and mysterious. I also loved thinking about my audience seeing eggs anew at breakfast the following morning, maybe thinking of me and the ideas I shared. I love how art is intertwined with memory, weaving itself into everyday life, acting as a portal. (View Highlight)
  • Others might call it a support structure, as Édouard tweeted, “more often than not, the most meaningful human activity boils down to providing support structures for one another.” (View Highlight)
  • If there is anything specific I learned from giving this talk, it’s that the word “honor” is important to me. As I mentioned, I have this theory that when artists use eggs in their work, often they are simply “honoring” them. In other words, they are pointing to the egg somehow: so that we can see it anew, as if for the first time. I have this other theory that design is simply about creating entrances and exits. Maybe a good entrance allows someone to be curious, to see something anew. (View Highlight)
  • “I only make odes,” I tweeted to myself last year. As defined by Wikipedia:

    An ode (from Ancient Greek: ᾠδή, romanized: ōdḗ) is a type of lyric poetry. Odes are elaborately structured poems praising or glorifying an event or individual, describing nature intellectually as well as emotionally. Odes celebrate the worth or influence of another person or thing. In creating odes in various mediums, I don’t mean to be nostalgic or overly obsessed with the past. I believe we can help people see things anew through re-presentation or re-circulation. We can design entrances, exits, and systems to do this well. (View Highlight)

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