Unravelling Layers of Perception
I’ve got the late summer blues. I feel so melancholy to see the gradual end of summer. To see the light go. All my dreams for easy living. The fruits of a whole winter of longing. If it were March, I’d be delighted that it wasn’t until half past nine in the evening that it was getting dark. But it’s August, and turning darker.
What happened? Did summer rain away? Is my memory faulty or skewed to remembering long days of work and lousy weather? Was I just not able to seize all those moments?
Wait a minute…. one of the things I love about living in Sweden is the intense difference between the seasons… The longing, the awareness, the heightened senses, the early summer fever, the winter sunsets that go on for hours and hours, the sound of snow crunching under my feet, the rich and ever-changing palette of autumn leaves. The exceptional sense of change and being in the present, and perhaps that is it, a sadness that I wasn’t quite in the present this summer…
Besides, I love rain!
Can there be layers of truth? Or layers of perception? Layers of memories?
Because in many ways this has been an astonishing summer!
This summer, I found some precious time for myself and my creative journey, met a crowd of inspiring and creative women, and unravelled my interest in photography in stunningly poetic photographer Susannah Conway’s e-course “Unravelling: Ways of Seeing My Self”.
I’ve always had a passion for helping people who use computers to have a personalised, gorgeous and at once practical desktop. It’s the reason I’m an icon designer. This summer I found the time to launch my dream project. Creating three brand new collections of extraordinarily useful and beautiful icons! In this unique project I’ve designed icons for people who use computers – directly – and not indirectly through the interface of software or a website. The basis for these icons has been based entirely on feedback from people who visit Marmalade Moon. Everything from the metaphors, to the style is a result of ideas from people who use computers and who care about what their desktop looks like. And I’ve created the icons with the same professional eye for detail and care for functionality that normally only goes into corporate icon design. A dream come true for me!
And still, this late summer blues…
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