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I PARTICIPATE Isolation is suicide. Who are you to believe that your opinion is anything more than words spat out in order? Echoes indicate vast amounts of space. Do not allow your ideas to dwell in loneliness. Surrounding yourself with the right people results in you becoming the right person.
II VISION The architecture of artistic identity. Signs emerge before you. Stay woke. Those who close their eyes cannot recall what is lost. To see is not to be seen. Stay woke. It is the gentle space between, Insulated by that which we often take for granted. That which harnesses the potential to become something greater. Stay woke.
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III STRUCTURE Planning fuels innovation. Foundation does not mean immovable. Where will all my children live if a proper house is not built? I will not condemn them to a space of forgotten memory. They are worth more. They deserve to be protected. Protection, which is only effective if there is a predetermined plan. I will build them a castle in the sky.
IV IMAGINE Why are you so fixated on that which you know so well? For here the law of push and pull need not apply. Is that why you chose to refrain from comment? A foreign notion Not found in the textbook, which you used to govern my practice.
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V EXPERIMENT Rules are malleable. Do they fucking exist at all? Spaces that call out to be claimed. You have the right, If you are able to wield the bravery required. Create. Pioneer. Do not become static. Thinking is not enough.
VI EXPLORE I once travelled to a land with two R5 coins And from that soil, fashioned a garment Which you then borrowed. In that space of mind I uncovered answers to questions that haunted my daydreams. And from that space of mind, I returned with stones to throw at your glass house of perception.
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VII CRAFT The refinement of craft has no deadline attached. It is a lifelong pursuit. In the connection of the head The heart and The hands, You will bring new innovation into existence. You will take the intangible And bring it to life. A creator, Always creating.
VIII DESTROY Make art, To break art, To make art. Proofing by an automatic weapon Loaded with rounds of opinion. Fired at a target which is ultimately bullet proof. Didn’t you know ideas can not die? Lose yourself. Keep being born again.
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IX REMEMBER I thought I had left you behind In the depths of the forest of my mind. Alone to play in the shadow from which you were forged. Did I ever really leave you? A stranger I then walked past every morning. We are now acquainted, Walking side by side at night. I know now, that in the dark, I see the clearest.
X REINVENT You are more than your skin. More than the muscle beneath it. More than the bone beneath that. You are multifaceted. Why are you searching? You should be creating. Change. Change back if need be. Redefine what they said you could be. It is you that holds the key to your evolution.
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Thank you
Hercules, for your Participation Nidaal, for your Vision Jessica, for your Structure Eric, for your Craft Q, for your Imagination Kyle, for Remembering
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