coexistence residency: day 13: having a break, cleaning, laundry and opening speciall gifts

Sunday 15 December is a very quite day at rue du Chaligny, Paris. It looks like people are focusing in buying presents for Christmas or resting at home. They are very curious though, looking through the window and move on. There is also this psychological state when people see a gallery. People are not used to experience the artwork for only their sake and pleasure. They believe that they enter into the gallery only if they are intentioned to buy...And Factory49 Sydney -Paris is an Artist Run Initiative gallery, a very independent gallery where the artist is his/her own promoter without being so much commercial.

At the contrary my day started very early! Doing and drying my laundry, it took like two hours! Then I cleaned the residency and all morning was gone!

I researched online one word that one of coexistence visitors, the pianist Romain Merrien was trying to explain to me in French yesterday! The spherical TOKAMAK that visually looks like my cunjevoi but that is a mechanism for nuclear fusion with a plasma where electrons and ions goes round and round in a magnetic field without touching the wall and so able to produce energy! Michele Leverage well explains this kind of energy that can be used to utilise natural resources and overcome climate change.

This inspired me to research how lichens and fungi, the next topic of my project Symbiont, can contribute for the planet. I found the Italian physicist Silvano Onofri that tested how small black rock-fungi and lichens can survive in the Space and Mars and so project life into the Space. All this is quite fascinating. Thanks to Romain Merrien the pianist that came to visit the gallery yesterday!

Then I opened 3 special gifts! The first one was an absolute treat. My friend Ben Amitrano, Fiona Amitrano's husband that live in Lausanne, Switzerland has made these tasty and refined chocolates for me! Les Ephemeres design is made by Fiona.

The second gift is an bio-project made by Nathalie and Maria Bruzzo- Borgeaud from Switzerland. They create the pocket tissues made in cotton instead with paper, so to avoid to waste paper. Mock design is made by Nathalie. What a great idea and collaborative project between mother and daughter!