Remembering My Summer-internship-time At The Observatoire Océanologique De Banyuls-Sur-Mer

HEY LAURA IT`S ME  Scopelosaurus hamiltoni  original illustration in “Fishes of the Southern Ocean” 

Happy New Year et une très bonne année :) 

Time is running

Watercolour on paper

remembering June on the first day of September - this is a watercolour study of the “étang de la peyrade”, a saltwater lake near Frontignan

thank you https://www.facebook.com/wrehmanphotography/ :) 

This painting is already pretty old - it was the result of a short summer school about plankton ecology on a northern german island a couple of years ago. How time flies! About a year ago I (reluctantly) set my foot on Swiss grounds to start my masters at ETH in Zürich. Today I am leaving again, for some months at least - but before its time for new beginnings I want to cherish how much joy and warmth this past year has brought me! One of the many great experiences was certainly ArtSci (https://artsci.ethz.ch/), the first ETH art and science exhibition my friends and I organised this spring. Hans Thierstein was until 2009 full professor of Micropaleontology at ETH and has since then embarked on new creative adventures. Feel free to check out more of his work here - https://www.hansthierstein.ch/!  Hans was definitely one of the most involved participants in ArtSci this year, displaying his self-built quatroscope and a series of quatroscopies along with it. Apart from allowing us to display his very interesting artworks, he also actively helped making ArtSci happen whenever our logistics failed - he was just great!! The upper photo was made by him, it is a quatroscopy of my drawing from back at 2016. For me, this is a really nice illustration of how other people help us grow - I am so grateful for all the people that I have met here and elsewhere and for everything they have brought into my life. 

“what’s the greatest lesson a woman should learn? 

that since day one. She’s already had everything  she needs within herself. it’s the world that  convinced her she did not.” -rupi kaur watercolour on paper, Zürich 

Lee Jeffries, Pencil on paper

watercolour on paper

Pterois antennata 

watercolour illustration 

scyphozoa. 

Baumpilz & Birke im Herbst - watercolour on paper

polypore & birch - it really is fall in Zürich now!