It’ll soon be #FolktaleWeek2023 so my preparations are well underway. When I think about how I can interpret themes, I start with art I have already made to get my mind going. Here’s my selkie from last year: she could also work for the 1st theme “lost.” A lot of the lore about these seal-person shapeshifters is about them being trapped in human form if their sealskin is lost or hidden from them. 🧵1
Happy birthday to French mathematician, physicist and philosopher Marie-Sophie Germain (1776 – 1831), known as Sophie. She taught herself mathematics using books in her father's library and by corresponding with leading mathematicians of her day, including Lagrange, Legendre and Gauss, …
