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Sustain the Practice

This practice has been alive for thirty years. It runs on patience, materials, daily hours, and the belief that discarded things matter. There is no institution behind it. There is a person in Saint Paul making work every day. Your support keeps the daily practice alive.

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Engagement

Three Ways In

The practice does not ask for patrons. It asks for companions. Each tier is a different kind of presence.

The Reader
Free
Subscribe to dispatches. Receive the work as it arrives. The writing, the methodology, the fragments. No paywall. The Reader is the first circle — the one who shows up because the words asked them to.
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The Sustainer
Monthly
Keep the daily practice alive. A monthly contribution that covers materials, time, and the unsexy infrastructure that lets an independent practice continue. Named in the archive. Receives work before it publishes.
Early access to new pieces
Named in the Oyparaploo archive
Methodology notes as they develop
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The Companion
Yearly
Full access to the methodology. The 70 shaping prompts, the rotation prompts, the living documents. Named in the colophon. The Companion walks alongside the practice as it grows.
Everything in The Sustainer
Full methodology access
Named in the site colophon
Annual letter from the elder
Companion
The inner ring

The Circle

The practice figures — Mercy Momo, Bomu, the animal circle — have companions in the world too. The Circle is for those who want a direct relationship with the work. Not an audience. A presence.

Commission
A piece made for a specific occasion, person, or place. Shaped using the full methodology. The elder decides what form it takes. The commissioner decides what it is for.
Host
Bring the practice to a place. A reading, a workshop, a residency. The practice travels with its tools and leaves something behind that was not there before.
Collaborate
Work alongside the practice on a specific project. The collaborator must push back. Must hold the line. Must tell the truth about what is alive and what is dead.
Legacy
Sustain the practice beyond a single lifetime. Ensure the archive, the methodology, and the 140,000 files outlive the hands that made them.

Contribute

Every contribution, any size, goes directly to the daily practice. Materials. Time. The unglamorous work of keeping an independent creative practice alive in the Twin Cities.

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Oyparaploo is an independent practice. Minneapolis ~ Saint Paul.

Other ways

Support Without Money

Share the Work
Send a piece to someone who needs it. The writing was made to travel. A link, a reading aloud, a passage copied into a letter. The share is the oldest form of support.
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Teach With It
Use the methodology in your own practice. The 70 prompts, the shaping tools, the categories. Bring them into a classroom, a workshop, a kitchen table. The tools want to be used.
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Witness
Read. Come back. Read again. The witness who returns is doing the most important work. The practice does not need applause. It needs someone who was there and came back.
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Tell Us
If a piece changed something. If a phrase stopped you. If you used a prompt and it worked. The practice needs to know it landed. One sentence is enough.
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