Oyparaploo
18
Grounds
60
Entrances
330
Pages
62+
Portraits
80+
Prayers

The Grounds

Eighteen grounds, sixty entrances. Not rooms — because sixty percent of the work is experienced outdoors. A ground can be sheltered or wide open. The soil changes. The light changes. But the earth is continuous.

Eclipse Prayer Shadow Impossible Mirror
Light nativeSand #f0efed
The front door to everything. Four stages of seeing what can't be seen. The sun disappears. You pray. Your shadow changes. The mirror shows the impossible.
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River Delta Dry Creek Without Roof and Walls Bedroom
Dark native
The most intimate practice in the most open space. A bedroom with no enclosure. A dry creek is still a creek — the path is cut even when the water isn't running.
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Badlands Wonderful Goodness Hole In The Wall
The terrain before transformation, the transformation itself, and the way in. You don't enter through the front door — you find the hole in the wall.
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Floating Between Earth and Stone Canyon Basin
Suspended between what happened and what it became. A canyon basin holds everything that flows into it. 26 parts of a practice telling its own story.
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Glacial Erratic Stable Sinkhole
Boulders deposited by the glacier of the whole practice. Each one stable. Each one an opening downward. Ten gateway pieces.
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Limestone Bluff Mouth
The land opened over millennia and their scenes came out. Marie, Herb, Nell, Jean, Hahnu Youn. The bluff is the mouth.
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Salt Flat Quarry Cave
Blinding surface, extracted depth, the darkness where the voices actually meet. The novel that sits on the surface as conversation but has been quarried from deep material.
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Gloriously Grooved Volcanic Caldera
The eruption already happened. What's left is the shape of it — grooved, marked, gorgeous. The workshop after the explosion.
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Fjord Tool Face Landing
Light nativeCream #f9f7f4
A fjord carved by ancient force. The tool is the nerd door. The face is the portrait. The landing is where you finally arrive at the person after the deep passage in. 62+ pieces.
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Natural Built Then Ruined or Softened Shelter
Something was natural, then someone built it, then it was ruined or softened by time. And now it shelters anyway. The outsider's architecture. 80+ prayers.
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Tidal Pool Sandbar Sea Turtle Castle
Coastal, tidal, ancient, fortified by something alive long before you arrived. Echoes of Glass Stones. Feldkirch to Collioure to Pigalle.
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Permanent to Temporary Underground Fortified Space that has Linear Cracks of Sunlight
Underground theater beneath Malheur National Forest. The light comes through damage. Ten characters. Three plays.
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Peat Bog Notes Cliff
Everything preserved in peat survives. Notes at the precipice. Noir Song Frequencies. The space between noise and listening.
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Mesa Top Arroyo
Flat elevated ground with a carved channel running through it. Dispatches from the practice, channeled outward.
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Decommissioned Mushroom Factory Intake
The archive. The mouth of the place that used to grow things in the dark. Where raw material enters. 1,033+ pieces.
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Sideways Slot Machine Garden Plot
Tilted, part chance, part cultivation. Current work growing in improbable soil.
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Ghost Light Rehearsal Loft
The single bare bulb left on in an empty theater so the ghosts can perform. The signal that keeps transmitting when nobody's watching.
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Demilitarized Isthmus Bar Between Two Waters
Two voices, one narrow strip of shared ground, a drink on the table. The zone of enforced peace between two oceans.
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