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Self

Creative Disembodiment

Nitzan Hermon
Engraving of hands pulling a strip reading Nature from a frame, the chromograph
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There is nothing more unkind for the self than conflating prompts for briefs. Prompts point at an inner place of thinking; briefs are things we do with and for others. Ignoring the distinction, we relinquish our thinking space and start the process of disembodiment (/creative surplus). This is a living idea that I have written and held workshops about.

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