Growing up in communist Bulgaria as a little girl who was obsessed with space and Mars, I had very little information as to the latest advances in science, so I didn't know that NASA’s Mariner 9, and later the Viking 1 and Viking 2 missions, had already disproved the channels on Mars. So I remember when I was 10 or 12 and later reading books about the channels on Mars, which were, of course, outdated, but, you know, it still was so very pleasurable to read and still fascinating and supported my dreams and imagination about Mars. And now, due to JPL's robots on Mars, I can actually do Mars paintings and use my imagination to build based on what the robots see and inspire me in a new and different way.
Ultramarine blue is beautiful /
SpaceX grid fins are so beautiful /
I mean these snooker geniuses are so good they could easily fake winning and losing, I'm worried this is a theater but I enjoy it nevertheless /
I hope Ronnie versus Higgins snooker match is not fixed /
Hello neutrinos, where do you come from and where are you going /
How can you sleep peacefully knowing trillions of neutrinos ignore you /
We are porous, old cosmos creatures. 10 percent of us is at least as old as the universe. The question is, do you feel it? /
America's gunboat diplomacy /
Talk is cheap /
I hate Autumn, pumpkins, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas, it is about being stuck inside mindlessly stuffing. I love spring and open air /
Alistair Reynolds likes the word churlish /
Smiley astronauts happiness /
Recently I cut up one of my paintings which wasn't working into smaller pieces to stretch. I've now re-grounded them with lead oil white, they're drying, I'm trying some new mediums from Dali /
The other day I cut up one of my paintings which wasn't working into smaller pieces to stretch. I've now re-grounded them with lead oil white, they're drying. I'm trying some new mediums from the Dali books I've been reading all winter. The first application of these new mediums was a disaster. But just like Elon Musk says I'm finding the edges of the box.
The large canvas will turn into 14 smaller, 12 +2 (7 x 2). I'm obsessed with the number seven so some of these canvases are 27 x 37, and some of the diagonals of the bigger ones are 77.7. I was born on a bunch of sevens.
I'm exhausted from cutting, putting together the stretch of bars and the re-grounding.
So now I am reading the Decameron, якоб буркхарт книга за ренесанса на български, and watching the great British baking show. As I got kind of exhausted from Moon News so I'm getting on the Moon diet for a few hours.