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No Storm Can Last Forever
Certainly, the museum was filled with beautiful, colourful, dark, intense, and simple art. Through it all, I kept coming back to one; Storm by Julius Mařak. It was big, imposing, and the desperation of it enticed me. Mařak chose nature as his landscape and he showed its fickleness and danger in black, white and grey.…
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Trapped Forest Nymphs – reflection
missing piece what if they took it away from us too tied it up locked it and drowned it what if they made us believe we don’t need it we are yet complete . what if some forgot got detached from their very own souls what if they cannot recall how it felt to be…
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Women’s Empowerment Through Mountains: Research
Women from different nationalities, different cultures and languages, different past, and stories, meet in the mountains with a goal in common; find themselves again. Mainly because nature is healing. Nature is soft. Nature is powerful. Mountains are the tip of these attributes. For this reason, during my research, I’m going to let other women’s experiences…
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Gallery visit – I found a piece of home
I come from Šumava and this beautiful part of our country has always had a special place in my heart. Ever since I was a small child I loved being surrounded by the peaceful meadows, crystal clear streams and waterfalls, calm forests, and quiet mountains. Therefore, it is quite unsurprising that during our gallery…
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Pixel Mountains 2: Electric Boogaloo
I believe most of my research that I could share before a later stage has been mentioned in my previous blogpost. My focus being mountains in the video game medium in general it is impossible to truly outline research at its beginning. Same is applicable to a list of scholarly articles of which there are…
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Social Media and Mountains
I am going to add just a little bit to the plan about my research on mountains and Social Media. As I mentioned in my previous blogpost, I will be mainly interested in the perception of the mountains that the users of the Internet might have, how it can be changed and which consequences in…
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Gallery Visit Report: A Sudden Switch
A visit to the local gallery was an interesting refreshment on Wednesday afternoon when we had the opportunity to see the world of diverse artists and their representations. There were many works in which one could get lost for a moment; free yourself from your body and dive deeper, peek into a painting or work.Lindovsky’s…
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Pilgrimage
While delving further into my research that revolves around the meaning of mountains in eastern philosophies, I thought about what would make it easier. If only there was a place that has shares its meaning with all, or at least most of the major philosophies/religions. To my luck, such place indeed exists – the mountains…
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Songs and Tales from the mountains (methodology of “a brief story of mountains and humanity”)
Dear friends and mountains travellers, After researches discussions and reflexion, I had come to the conclusion that I have to reduce the number of mountains that I’m gonna study, and to change the final form of my project. Let’s define first the final choices of mountains: Mount Fuji, Japan: The Jewel of Japan is not…
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Mountains in Jack Kerouac’s works (the brief plan of my research)
Since my research is going to focus on mountains in Jack Kerouac’s works, the very first thing I undoubtedly need to do is read those specific works. Though it can sometimes be time-consuming, I simply love it. I have just finished reading Big Sur and my next target is to re-read The Dharma Bums. It…