Nasty Pink Legs

I have just realized that I have chosen the same Blogger template as Margaret:

Margaret is a researcher from Cohort 4.

It has taken me most of the day to work out that she was from Cohort 4 and not Cohort 5 like me and I was really puzzled at how she had been able to organize her space so well in just a week or two!

But I have now finally worked out that she has been on the course a year at least and the reason I thought she was from C5 was because she was friendly and welcomed us in the C5 discussion areas.

See Margarets Blog here: http://margaretbute.blogspot.com/

Anyway I hope no one thought I was copying her - sorry Margaret - but I used this template as I liked it and had used it before when I wanted to display my weird 'Pink Legs' digital art work, as the colours by co-incidence exactly matched the image and this saved me the job of writing a web page for it.

Pink Legs is a weird piece. It was constructed from digital photographs of my own legs shortly after I cam eout of the horrible frame after my accident. Its purpose was to reclaim my legs as a part of my body I loved, even though they were scared by the accident.

It was part of clawing back from the negative body image I had after the accident resulting from, as well as the scaring, putting on so much weight due to being unable to walk far or exercise.

So I made this image and it was pink for the same reasons as breast cancer awareness uses pink - because pink is a colour symbolically tied up with women's body image and appearance as well as feminist issues.

And I think this pink used for this blog template and my image is a particularly lovely kind of pink - Fushia - not a weak pink, but a pink that means strength.

And I am going to need strength to get through this course
Its been a steep learning curve already :-D