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How big is a tree? | How big is a tree? | ||
How big is a whale? | How big is a whale? | ||
How big is your love for pop music? | |||
How big is your love for pop music? | |||
And how big is your trust in yourself? | And how big is your trust in yourself? | ||
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When I open my hands as much as I can to both sides of my body – like a child spreading its arms untill it can’t any further, sayling: „Look, this is how big is an elephant!“ – I try to measure my surrounding: I am trying to depict a size of something that is there – but may not there in a touchable way– and I will try to show its dimensions with the means of my body. | When I open my hands as much as I can to both sides of my body – like a child spreading its arms untill it can’t any further, sayling: „Look, this is how big is an elephant!“ – I try to measure my surrounding: I am trying to depict a size of something that is there – but may not there in a touchable way– and I will try to show its dimensions with the means of my body. | ||
Musing about distances (– from here, to there…; from my one hand, to the other hand… ) and then thinking about the size of things and how hard they are sometimes to percieve esp. when far away or largely sized, I quickly realized that I would like to find a way to translate such terms like meters and centimeters (– the metric system: a measuring system we used to learn, yet, often so intangible ) into terms that might be more abstract but still emotionally close to us: sounds. | Musing about distances (– from here, to there…; from my one hand, to the other hand… ) and then thinking about the size of things and how hard they are sometimes to percieve esp. when far away or largely sized, I quickly realized that I would like to find a way to translate such terms like meters and centimeters (– the metric system: a measuring system we used to learn, yet, often so intangible) into terms that might be more abstract but still emotionally close to us: sounds. | ||
How do dimensions sound like? | How do dimensions sound like? | ||
How does size sound like? | How does size sound like? | ||
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