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matilde tomat

Apr 14
2 min

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“Your truth is provisional, and the only thing backing it up is who you are at the time you wrote this or that, and that your joys and...

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matilde tomat

Nov 21, 2022
2 min

MRes wk 9 - 21NOV22

So, there was the graduation. It was good but it also left me with some strange feelings I have to process. The main one is a state of...

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matilde tomat

Nov 15, 2022
4 min

MRes wk8 /ish

This week was different. It was the week of my graduation which I think deserves its dedicated post; but I also when to the last...

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matilde tomat

Nov 8, 2022
2 min

MRes wk 07 - 7NOV22

This has been a week of thinking and catching up. There is no uni, no lectures to audit, no readings to be done but... but... I had to...

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matilde tomat

Nov 2, 2022
2 min

MRes wk 06 - 31OCT22

I have been feeling off. And overwhelmed. I am at a stage in my research - which is just in its embryo - where I feel I have so much to...

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matilde tomat

Oct 26, 2022
3 min

MRes wk 05 - 23OCT22

It is back home and back to uni while leaving part of my heart in Glastonbury and down south. Phenomenology crawls under my skin, which...

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matilde tomat

Oct 19, 2022
5 min

Ann of the Apples - Glastonbury 22

[This post follows the previous one which ended with…] I am continuing to write this, sitting on the Abbey grounds. I am sitting right in...

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matilde tomat

Oct 19, 2022
2 min

MRes wk 04 - 18OCT22

I am away. I don't think I have ever felt such a need to leave as I felt lately. I didn't even pack. I was ready. I have been ready since...

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matilde tomat

Oct 12, 2022
3 min

MRes wk 03 - 12OCT22

This week's readings - at least 2 of them because I have been naughty and did not read one at all... - touched me particularly. The first...

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matilde tomat

Oct 8, 2022
2 min

MRes wk 02 - 08OCT22

Well, I had my first official supervision with Dr T Reifenstein and my first induction into the world of PGRs and PGRing. Do I feel more...

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matilde tomat

Oct 4, 2022
4 min

MRes wk 02 - 03OCT22

This week is a bit different: habemus induction for the PGRs, which is good. I will be able to meet with fellow researchers, see the...

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matilde tomat

Sep 27, 2022
3 min

MRes wk 01 - 26SEPT22

MRes wk 01 - 26SEPT22 A journey through my Practice-led MA by Research in Fine Art at York St John University

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matilde tomat

May 29, 2022
1 min

: TAW wk 11 - autonomy

It is finished. The heartache and fear paid off. My beautiful piece, of which I am so so proud, has been installed, it is ready to be...

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matilde tomat

May 22, 2022
1 min

: TAW wk 10 - self-protection

This is now feeling like the end. Next week is the installation and I am still feeling poorly and the recording has been a struggle....

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matilde tomat

May 15, 2022
2 min

: TAW wk 09 - compassion

There has been a full weekend at the supervision course, and the clearing of my space at university. This has been a week of mixed...

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matilde tomat

May 8, 2022
1 min

: TAW wk 08 - strength

Strength is a virtue I have mixed emotions about: people tend to tell me they find me strong and determined; I feel fragile. I often have...

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matilde tomat

May 1, 2022
4 min

: TAW wk 07 - connection

This has been a week of understanding and frantically trying to keep myself together and safe. One thing worth mentioning: I came home...

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matilde tomat

Apr 24, 2022
3 min

: TAW wk 06 - abundance

I have been struggling quite a lot with reconciling God from the Christian perspective and abundance as in money and financial happiness....

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matilde tomat

Apr 17, 2022
3 min

: TAW wk 05 - possibility

The very first line of the chapter mentions the doubts we have in accepting God's generosity and our ideas on limited possibilities. What...

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matilde tomat

Apr 10, 2022
2 min

: TAW wk 04 - integrity

Well, and even weekend n.2 has been completed! I have to say that I am very proud of myself: I showed up, I felt prepared, I know I am...

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