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Jessica Rosenkrantz

Exciting update about our sculpture at MIT, a robin has built a nest in it! And it's having babies!

@loren @nervous_jessica "oh no, my babies are stuck in a different dimension" – that Robin, probably

@nervous_jessica Paging Mo Willems! (There is a Bird on Your Sculpture!)

@nervous_jessica This made me think to check the Cornell Red Hawk cam and guess what? One of the eggs hatched yesterday!

@nervous_jessica May I ask, what was your objective when building this structure ? 🤔 In all the cases that looks so kewl 👌

@nervous_jessica That little sliver of blue egg showing? Love it! 🥰

@nervous_jessica Is that a North American Robin? Looks different to our European ones.

@dusepo yes! They aren’t closely related. American robins are much larger birds

@nervous_jessica What a work of art! And the sculpture ain't bad neither.

@nervous_jessica I read this really really fast and thought robots had given birth. I was like "damn, MIT has gone too far!"

@nervous_jessica You know what they say... art incubates life. 😌

@nervous_jessica Is the sculpture permanently installed? I’ll be on campus at the end of May and would love to see it in person, if you can share what building it’s near.

@amanda it’s in the interior courtyard of N52. It’s a little tricky to access the courtyard but it can be seen from the windows of the undergrad design shops on the third floor

@nervous_jessica Awesome, thanks! That is not where we thought it was based on the windows, so it will be a fun scavenger hunt to go see it!
@nervous_jessica Hi! Just wanted to say I saw your sculpture in person (from above, via the D-lab windows), and it’s awesome!
@nervous_jessica And then it was just in the MIT Arts enewsletter that my spouse just sent me!

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Cheers for the robin! And is that a model of a minimal surface?

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tfw> non-euclidean plane is already full of plot-holes