Ahh the final reading of the semester!

Dust… Jussi Parka seems to think that there is something poetic about dust. That it is the stuff of ancient times, of fairy tales, of dusty old books and is temporary, easily wiped away without a second thought. When I read through this essay about the ‘multiplicity of dust’ I couldn’t help but reflect it back to my own current study situation. Dust is made up of so many things, minute tiny collections of dirt, hair, particles all coming together to form a substance that is insignificant. This semester has been confusing. It was my first taste of university and I had all these parts combing together that made up my course. I also feel like study should be taken in a ‘dusty’ approach. One needs to research and take in and consume all different and a wide variety of examples and information, learn and learn from as much as we can and from as many different avenues as we can. It’s not enough to take it from one source. It takes a combination of elements in order to fully create something…and that relates to Project 4, we have taken so many elements in order to explain and discuss one topic. Our project could be described as, perhaps, ‘dusty’…