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Crossing Without Authorization

Stomari | Process & Drafts (Filed under: Practice). A familiar shop greets me warmly—then the unpaid balance returns, and the intersection outside turns…

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In the pulse before pattern.

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The Kettlebells at the Bed’s Edge, and the Green Exit

Stomari. A lucid dream begins in a familiar bedroom and unfolds into shifting timelines, a humming transformation, and a communal ritual interrupted by…

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The Kettlebells at the Bed’s Edge, and the Green Exit

Stomari. A lucid dream begins in a familiar bedroom and unfolds into shifting timelines, a humming transformation, and a communal ritual interrupted by…

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✧ Series Introduction | Carousel

Carousel is a current in Studio Shorts: one seed, turned through multiple voices. A seed becomes a rotation through Stomari, Makari, Panoma, Mabst, and…

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Kirenya is a creative studio weaving fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid works that move between dream, structure, and signal. Through multiple pen names, we explore layered meaning across stories, essays, and experimental dispatches. Begin when you’re ready.

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Is Memory a Sense?

Makari | Process & Drafts (Filed under: Practice). I step off the curb and my vision disappears, so I cross using memory the way some people use…

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Arrogance, Wearing Insecurity's Clothes (Part 2)

Makari | From Her Journal – Return Unlocked – Doubt or arrogance? Part II continues a quiet reflection on writing, faith, the void, and choosing to…

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They Kept Quiet While the Others Talked

Makari | Temporal Scores — Practice in Motion — A second pass through the same score: a longer third person sentence, three variations, and three lines…

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Threshold Practices for the Creative Self

Makari | The Notebooks: Process and Drafts — A conversation about the moments that ask for patience — A reflective meditation on the quiet crossings…

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STOMARI

Crossing Without Authorization

Stomari | Process & Drafts (Filed under: Practice). A familiar shop greets me warmly—then the unpaid balance returns, and the intersection outside turns…

2 hrs ago • Kirenya

The Kettlebells at the Bed’s Edge, and the Green Exit

Stomari. A lucid dream begins in a familiar bedroom and unfolds into shifting timelines, a humming transformation, and a communal ritual interrupted by…

Jan 18 • Kirenya

The Kettlebells at the Bed’s Edge, and the Green Exit

Stomari. A lucid dream begins in a familiar bedroom and unfolds into shifting timelines, a humming transformation, and a communal ritual interrupted by…

Jan 18 • Kirenya

The Lovers in Line, and the Door of Vibe Palm

Stomari | Dream Journal – yyyy/mm/dd. A dream of lovers in line, where attention becomes a constraint and presence becomes an architecture problem. What…

Jan 16 • Kirenya

Relaxation Protocol

Stomari. A series of dreams teach her, one layer at a time, what “relax” actually means—through a love triangle, a syncing interface, and a body that…

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A series guide to Mabst’s Newsreel. Five developments at a time, sampling what counted as “the world” in a given moment.

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Five Developments · Reel 11 · IA-2026.01.02. Five developments from a state-level record—where affordability becomes a financial instrument, care is…

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Five Developments · Reel 10 · IA-2026.01.02. Five developments from a city resetting itself—where continuity is preserved through deletion…

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Five Developments · Reel 09 · IA-2025.12.21 How systems record warning, convert intervention into process, and preserve legitimacy through closure.

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Five Developments · Reel 08 · IA-2025.12.20

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Series Navigation Guides

✧ Series Introduction | Carousel

Carousel is a current in Studio Shorts: one seed, turned through multiple voices. A seed becomes a rotation through Stomari, Makari, Panoma, Mabst, and…

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✧ Newsreel | Series Guide

A series guide to Mabst’s Newsreel. Five developments at a time, sampling what counted as “the world” in a given moment.

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✧ Navigation Guide | Cup Below the Well

Stomari | Journal Entry • Fragment • Field Notes. A well opens into a room, and a blue cup of “old” water pulls from below—until a hidden door changes…

Dec 29, 2025 • Kirenya

✧ Navigation Guide | Cleave

Makari | A three-part meditation on cleave — the word that means to split and to cling. Follow its unfolding through poem, reflection, and story.

Nov 22, 2025 • Kirenya

✧ Navigation Guide | Syntax of the Self

Makari | A Reflection on Language and Connection — A quiet exploration of how the structures of grammar mirror the structures of mind and relationship…

Nov 17, 2025 • Kirenya

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The Kettlebells at the Bed’s Edge, and the Green Exit

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The Lovers in Line, and the Door of Vibe Palm

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Relaxation Protocol

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The Verdict and the Translation

Dec 28, 2025 • Kirenya

The Kettlebells at the Bed’s Edge, and the Green Exit

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What the Nervous System Knows

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just, tracking the seam

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Coffee Shop, Book, Chocolate Drink

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A view that proves you are not a spreadsheet

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This is worthy.

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This is worthy.

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This is worthy.

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A Pane of Light

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The Link That Knows My Hands — motion study

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Arrogance, Wearing Insecurity's Clothes (Part 1 clip)

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Codes for the Horizon — Stills Study

Codes for the Horizon — Stills Study presents six interior scenes where circulation, pause, and sightline are treated as infrastructure. Each image…

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Distributed I presents four related images.

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Newsreel Stills Studies No. 01

Stills studies from Reels 07–11. A gallery of visual studies extracted from a fictional Newsreel. Twelve stills observe how authority installs itself…

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The Cup Below the Well

A gallery of visual studies built from a single dream structure: a rim above, a hidden door, a descent through infrastructure, and a blue cup holding…

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A visual vocabulary

for orientation, value, and quiet strategy

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Exercises & Experiments

Arrogance, Wearing Insecurity's Clothes (Part 2)

Makari | From Her Journal – Return Unlocked – Doubt or arrogance? Part II continues a quiet reflection on writing, faith, the void, and choosing to…

Jan 14 • Kirenya

Arrogance, Wearing Insecurity's Clothes (Part 1)

Makari | From Her Journal – Return Unlocked - Creative insecurity can disguise itself as arrogance—the belief that our work is so singular no one else…

Jan 12 • Kirenya

Words That Arrived

A living page of sentences kept as they arrive.

Dec 17, 2025 • Kirenya

They Kept Quiet While the Others Talked

Makari | Temporal Scores — Practice in Motion — A second pass through the same score: a longer third person sentence, three variations, and three lines…

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The Thought That Returns

Makari | Temporal Scores — Practice in Motion — A first pass through this month’s score: a small instruction, two attempts, and the lines that moved…

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Wherever you entered, thank you for being here. The studio grows through presence.

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