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where beneath your feet is the disconnected symphony
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what colors can be heard in the center of the broken hold
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From the upcoming book ‘questions. •
Questions designed to provoke non-literal answers.
Seeking to make art that does not simply decorate the world. But to make art that creates a world.
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#question #thesilentacademy #questions #art #metamodernism #fluxus #smallpress #independentpublisher #conceptualart #conceptualism #streetart #creativeprocess #experimentalart #experimentalpoetry #poetry #experientialart #stone #porttownsend #hagoromochalk

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how does a seed know the reach of scent from inside its fruit
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From the upcoming Silent Academy book, ‘questions’ •
The Process: •
Trying to make art that does not simply decorate the world.
Trying to make art that creates a world.
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#thesilentacademy #questions #experimentalart #conceptualart #smallpress #indepenedentpublisher #creativevandalism #fluxus #art #metamodernism #fruit #bee #stencilart #streetart

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how do we measure the most timid depth
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From the upcoming Silent Academy book, ‘questions’ •
The Process: •
Trying to make art that does not simply decorate the world.
Trying to make art that creates a world.
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Part One:
Consider a question which can only be addressed with an intuitive answer. Using only lower-case writing, scribble down your question. Remove all punctuation. •
Part Two:
Take a pencil and a small tag. Transfer your question to the tag.
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Part Three:
Go for a walk. Leave the tag in a place that makes intuitive sense. •
Part Four:
Repeat parts one to three once a week, every week for fifty weeks. •
Part Five:
At the end of fifty weeks - gather your questions, compile in a book called ‘questions’ and publish.
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#conceptualism #fluxus #streetart #silence #koan #porttownsend #questions #silentacademy #thesilentacademy #experimentalpoetry #poetry #smallpress #independentpress #process #creativevandalism

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what does mist have to do with the inside of silence
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how do you navigate the almost seen
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how does a mountain hold its thousand year old wish
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Found artwork with long title about the the nature of things intended to share the description of light in a raindrop on the petal of a poppy that died in a heavy storm soon after this image was taken. •
#thesilentacademy #foundart #poppy #raindrop #flower #backgroundiseverything #webofjewels #creativevandalism #smallpress #conceptualism #smallgallery #independentpublisher

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who paints memories behind the clock face •
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The Silent Academy Pamphlets - Batch Two - Now on Sale
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Items of Color & Reach •
Items of Momentum & Hope
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Items of Joy & Unrest
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Disrupt habitual thinking with three new pamphlets from The Silent Academy. •
Each pamphlet carries four pieces of writing - the record of creative actions that have been completed by The Silent Academy, and which you are encouraged to participate in.
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Each pamphlet is available for sale online (link in bio) and at select independent bookstores.
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Each pamphlet is individually priced at $2.50. However, buy all three for $6 and we’ll throw in some nice rough twine too. (Art should be affordable, and for everyone)
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#Thesilentacademy #poetrypamphlets #artbook #fluxus #silentacademy #23 #autumnalequinox
#itemsofcolorandreach #itemsofmomentumandhope #itemsofjoyandunrest #independentpress #smallpress #indiepublisher #resist #creativevandalism #metamodern
#equinox

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what is more full than an empty mind
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From the upcoming Silent Academy book, ‘questions’ •
The Process: •
Trying to make art that does not simply decorate the world.
Trying to make art that creates a world.
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Part One:
Consider a question which can only be addressed with an intuitive answer. Using only lower-case writing, scribble down your question. Remove all punctuation. •
Part Two:
Take a pencil and a small tag. Transfer your question to the tag.
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Part Three:
Go for a walk. Leave the tag in a place that makes intuitive sense. •
Part Four:
Repeat parts one to three once a week, every week for fifty weeks. •
Part Five:
At the end of fifty weeks - gather your questions, compile in a book called ‘questions’ and publish.
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#conceptualism #fluxus #streetart #silence #koan#porttownsend #experimentalpoetry #poetry #smallpress #independentpress #process #creativevandalism
#questions #silentacademy #thesilentacademy #artwork #streetart #jizo #jizostatues

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Items of Joy & Unrest
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This pamphlet* is the sixth in sequence of artifacts designed to disrupt habitual thinking. This pamphlet belongs to 'Batch Two' - released on September 23 2019 - the autumn equinox.
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This pamphlet carries four items designed to augment reality with magic realism, and to inspire beauty in the mundane, and the mundane in beauty.
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This pamphlet focuses on the intuitive sense of reason.
This pamphlet will call on you to spend time in the cinema. To consider loneliness. This pamphlet will demand secrecy and command respect.
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This pamphlet will require an alarm clock.
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You may wish to do the exercises. I did. •
This pamphlet is political in that it recognizes no authority but that of the reader.
This pamphlet is spiritual in that it recognizes no authority but that of the reader.
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Like all publications from The Silent Academy this pamphlet can be filed under 'feminist literature' in that it promotes common sense and basic fucking decency.
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* A small booklet or leaflet containing information or arguments about a single subject.
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#thesilentacademy #itemsofjoyandunrest #pamplet #poetrypamplet #fluxus #art #creativevandalism #conceptualism #smallpress #smallpublisher #silentacademy #focus #artbook #artifact

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Items of Color & Reach
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This pamphlet* is the fifth in a sequence of artifacts designed to disrupt habitual thinking.
This pamphlet belongs in ‘Batch Two’ - released on September 23 2019 - the fall equinox. •
This pamphlet carries four items designed to augment reality with magic realism,
and to inspire beauty in the mundane, and the mundane in beauty.
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This pamphlet focuses on the dropping of expectation.
This pamphlet will call on you to destroy some things in order to create some other things.
Sometimes the things you destroy will be material things.
Sometimes the things you destroy will be conceptual things.
Whatever you destroy will also create something.
And also the opposite could be true. •
You may wish to do the exercises. I did. •
This pamphlet is political in that it recognizes no authority but that of the reader.
This pamphlet is spiritual in that it recognizes no authority but that of the reader.
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Like all publications from the silent academy this pamphlet can be filed under ‘feminist literature’ in that it promotes common sense and basic fucking decency. •
(*a small booklet or leaflet containing information or arguments about a single subject)
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#thesilentacademy #itemsofcolorandreach #pamplet #poetrypamplet #fluxus #art #creativevandalism #conceptualism #smallpress #smallpublisher #silentacademy #focus #grey

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Items of Momentum & Hope
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This pamphlet* is the fourth in a sequence of artifacts designed to disrupt habitual thinking.
This pamphlet belongs in ‘Batch Two’ – released on September 23 2019 – the fall equinox.
This pamphlet carries four items designed to augment reality with magic realism, and to inspire beauty in the mundane, and the mundane in beauty.
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Where previous pamphlets, one, two, and three were launched in the summer the tone of the pieces contained here is informed by autumnal reflection, and the passing into a new season. Literal and conceptual. •
This pamphlet promotes private reflection, responsibility, and the engagement of remote and imagined places.
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There is also a question about a whale.
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You may wish to do the exercises. I did. •
This pamphlet is political in that it recognizes no authority but that of the reader.
This pamphlet is spiritual in that it recognizes no authority but that of the reader.
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Like all publications from the silent academy this pamphlet can be filed under ‘feminist literature’ in that it promotes common sense and basic fucking decency.
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(*a small booklet or leaflet containing information or arguments about a single subject) •
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#itemsofmomentumandhope #thesilentacademy #art #fluxus #smallpress #conceptualism #poetry ##silentacademy #pamphlet #chapbook #creativevandalism #

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what color is the exiled sky
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From the upcoming Silent Academy book, ‘questions’ •
The Process: •
Trying to make art that does not simply decorate the world.
Trying to make art that creates a world.
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Part One:
Consider a question which can only be addressed with an intuitive answer. Using only lower-case writing, scribble down your question. Remove all punctuation. •
Part Two:
Take a pencil and a small tag. Transfer your question to the tag.
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Part Three:
Go for a walk. Leave the tag in a place that makes intuitive sense. •
Part Four:
Repeat parts one to three once a week, every week for fifty weeks. •
Part Five:
At the end of fifty weeks - gather your questions, compile in a book called ‘questions’ and publish.
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#conceptualism #fluxus #streetart #silence #koan#porttownsend #experimentalpoetry #poetry #smallpress #independentpress #process #creativevandalism
#questions #silentacademy #thesilentacademy #apples #fruit #autumn #apparenttemptation

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These bound pamphlets and books are now happening in the mail.
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Heading to North Carolina, to be stocked and shared by the truly wonderful @theconcernnewsstand - ‘couplets’, ‘Items of Gentle Revolt’, ‘Items of Natural Chaos & Wonder’, and ‘Items of Emptiness’.
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#theconcern #theconcernnewstand #thesilentacademy #couplets #silentacademy #itemsofgentlerevolt #itemsofnaturalchaosandwonder #itemsofemptiness #mail #parcel #brownpaper #twine #string #porttownsend #poetry #conceptualart #smallpress #independentpublisher #art #creativeandalism #dada

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this piece of sky is happening now. Check out www.silentacademy.com/archive-of-sky for details. Store open. Also check @archiveofsky for source images. .
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what becomes of a thought that goes nowhere
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From the upcoming Silent Academy book, ‘questions’ •
The Process: •
Trying to make art that does not simply decorate the world.
Trying to make art that creates a world.
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Part One:
Consider a question which can only be addressed with an intuitive answer. Using only lower-case writing, scribble down your question. Remove all punctuation. •
Part Two:
Take a pencil and a small tag. Transfer your question to the tag.
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Part Three:
Go for a walk. Leave the tag in a place that makes intuitive sense. •
Part Four:
Repeat parts one to three once a week, every week for fifty weeks. •
Part Five:
At the end of fifty weeks - gather your questions, compile in a book called ‘questions’ and publish.
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#porttownsend #experimentalpoetry #poetry #smallpress #independentpress #process #creativevandalism
#questions #livethequestions #silentacademy #thesilentacademy #conceptualism #fluxus #streetart #silence #koan #marble #postoffice

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which note of birdsong will dismantle the mist •
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From the upcoming pamphlet ‘Items of Color & Reach’

On the Nature of Perseverance
Wait until you feel anger.
When you are sure that you are angry
pick up a pencil and a piece of paper.

Leave your home,
walk, and walk, and walk.
Continue walking until the anger
begins to recede.
At the point where anger ends
write down two lines about the nature of
your mind. Stab a stick into the ground,
or mark the spot on the pavement.

Return home.

Wait until you feel happiness.
When you are sure that you are happy
pick up a pencil and a piece of paper.
Leave your home,
walk in the opposite direction to anger.
Continue walking until the happiness
begins to recede.
At the point where happiness ends write down two lines about the nature of your mind.
Stab a stick into the ground,
or mark the spot on the pavement.
Return home.

Repeat this process for every emotion.
#silentacademy #pamphlets #experientialart #conceptualism #fluxus #conceptualpoetry #independentpress #smallpress #streetart #creativevandalism #porttownsend #thesilentacademy #itemsofcolorandreach #art #conceptualart #experimentalart

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