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16- Fences Directions Up and Down Who is Free?

Just an image. Franches Montagnes, Switzerland – October 2024
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13- Doors Choices Possibilities Decisions Consequences

“Yes, it was a matter of opening doors, he thought. You opened one door and that let you into a place where there were other doors. You chose a door in this new place and examined what that revealed to you. There might be times when you were forced to try all of the doors…
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12- From occasional to regular sprints

Looking back at my “daily” sprints, it turns out they have been bi-weekly at best: Eighteen sprints in 120 days this year totaling 15 hours of work. It’s not a stellar achievement, I agree. As the very purpose of the sprints is to test things out, let’s try to find out why this is happening…
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11- Garden Video #2

Observe how hand-drawn gardens transform day by day. This is my first video using the commercial application runwayml.com after earlier trials in this video using the research project FILM. Technical Note It took me only a few minutes to create the video by uploading 5 gardens to the runwayml website, selecting the interpolation tool and…
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Garden Video #1
Watch my first garden grow from bare soil in this first video! I hope to produce at some point in time a video that shows all my garden drawings (about 80 at the moment), one evolving into the next day after day. A technical side note I thought it would be easy to produce a…
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Garden Q&A

Why do I draw gardens? I draw gardens to better understand how I feel and how events in my life influence me. It helps me clarify my thoughts and to put names on my feelings. They also provide a safe space in which I get to choose how I react to events instead of just…
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How I draw my virtual gardens

I try to take every day a few minutes to draw how I feel on the spot without analyzing too much. The idea is to let my emotions and thoughts flow into the garden sections and to let the drawing emerge on the template. It takes me about 10 minutes using a pre-printed a A4…
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Mental Health, Sprints and Gardens
I asked myself last year what publishing meant to me and why the topic was a recurring motive for me for the past decades. It led me to pick a subject to look at which turned out to be mental health because I was attending late 2021 a seminar about how work affects it. Remember,…

