In consistent awareness of losing time and pending tasks, I had trouble trusting myself with closing tasks, which in retrospect sounds redundant. It’s not a great feeling, I’ll tell you that. The tasks I thought complete, (the icosahedron body, of other things) wouldn’t look the same because paper folding had its drawbacks. The idea was to construct a hemispherical icosahedron outer body for the Capt Mashes project, but it wouldn’t look the same. An icosahedron has all its vertices resting on a regular sphere. Ours looked flattened out, with rigid joined edges, like this. icosahedron And this was after a week of getting done with constructing it. That was not easy to deal with. Not that I was attached to the artefact, I could easily let that go. It was the amount of time that went into it already. I wasn’t sure where I was going wrong. We still made two other small versions to test if we can try different things. We saw how paper folds bring in a biased angle. We observed how the shapes were affected because of it. There is a bundle of cutout equilateral triangles that we’ll manually also stick to see if we can accomplish this better next time. Here lies an opportunity, that can help others in the same problem as me, I wouldn’t have come across unless things went on. Discomfort can be fruitful.

A break between the making may have been better for this unproductivity, but I continue to build objects this week, with a workspace in my room and jamming to Kishore Kumar. I think I’ll get there just fine.