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STOMARI

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What the Hands Remember
Stomari. This poem reflects on embodied mastery, creative process, and the lived experience that gives finished work its pulse and presence.
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Notes for Bones, Broken and Nursed
Stomari | Process & Drafts. Notes from the edge of two dream-explored stories. One a civilization’s, one a single relationship's. Somewhere between…
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Coda: The Optional Voice — The City That Speaks in Texture
Stomari • A Speculative Poem Cycle • Process & Drafts. Morning returns with softer edges. Voices reappear as one texture among many, and choice becomes…
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Paragraph in the Palm — The City That Speaks in Texture
Stomari • A Speculative Poem Cycle • Process & Drafts. Evening cools the block into intimacy. Palm meets palm, and a full paragraph passes through…
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MAKARI

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Loss Conditioning Specialist
Future Professions. Loss Conditioning Specialist works directly with participants moving through structured loss exposures, helping them build emotional…
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Loss Architecture Designer
Future Professions. Loss Architecture Designer creates controlled frameworks through which stable long-life societies cultivate grief literacy…
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Purpose Doctor
Future Professions. Purpose Doctor helps long-lived people recover direction and sustain meaning when survival lasts longer than the structures that…
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Grief Designer
Future Professions. Grief Designer creates emotionally legible mourning structures for societies where death is delayed, elective, distributed, or…
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MABSTAMA

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Ah. There It Is.
Mabst. A living page of sentences kept when something reveals itself.
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Who Are You
Mabst. It began as a note. Three verdicts: dreams unreal, thoughts unacceptable, feelings invalid. All for the same offense: being unlike the judge. The…
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Learning Occurred
Mabst • Value Theater • Process & Drafts. A certificate, dashboard, and badge confirm that learning occurred. A Mabst poem on outcomes culture…
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Mortality Onboarding
Mabst • Value Theater • Process & Drafts. A clipboard, urn, and tablet welcome the soul into a continuity portal. A Mabst poem on death platforms…
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▶ 321 · Video

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A Minute in Hell
Mabst Shorts
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ease, peace, cease, release, increase
Stomari Shorts
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Blue Prayer for an Unnamed Dawn
Stomari Shorts
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The Figure in the Pale Elsewhere
Stomari Shorts
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⧉ Gallery

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Classification Is a Political Act
Claims hidden inside a consequential classification, followed by one cheerful transfer of risk.
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The Thinking Artist
Mind at Work. Invites viewers into the mind’s studio, where creation begins in silence, attention, atmosphere, and the shaping force of thought.
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Quiet Returns
Congregation of Selves • Still Study 06
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Veil, Cocoon, Apparition
Dreamlike Figure Studies • Surreal Gothic. A gallery of surreal gothic images featuring veils, cocoon shapes, floating cloth, ghostly figures, dark…
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Kirenya Studio Shorts

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PROVENANCE / CHAIN OF CUSTODY
Mabst & Stomari. A dream, a machine, two confident classifications, and one creator left unverified.
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AUTHENTICITY REVIEW
Mabst Shorts
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HUMAN, 100%
Mabst Shorts
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Humanity as Defect
Mabst Shorts
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StudioLog

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The City That Speaks in Texture
A dream-fragment becomes a city you can read with the body. We’re releasing Stomari’s 12-poem draft cycle—one per week—where sensation carries the…
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StudioLog · 2026-02-05
Notes from the workbench. Release highlights across dream fiction and prose-poem work (Stomari), reflective essays and mythic drafts (Makari), and…
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Define · Set · Flow · Signal · Iterate – in public
Studio Log · December 2025 - A first Studio Log entry tracing how Kirenya will build this multi-voice house in public: intention, structure, flow…
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Studio Log, Coming Soon...
Kirenya is a creative studio weaving fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid works that move between dream, structure, and signal. Through multiple pen names…
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Reader Guide

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✦ Start Here
Start here. A clear map into Kirenya Studio: voices, rooms, and paths by interest (poems, reflections, stories, practices). Subscribe to stay close, or…
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Studio Picks • No. 001
Studio Picks is a rotating shelf of starting points across the Kirenya Studio—chosen to help you enter quickly, sample the range, and find a thread…
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About the Pen Names
Explore the distinct pen names that shape Kirenya Studio — five modes of thinking, one creative architecture.
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Subscribing & Benefits — FAQ
A subscription guide for the Kirenya Studio — free, paid, and Circle.
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Or follow a thread through projects and collections.

Navigation Guides

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✧ Value Theater • Navigation Guide
Mabst • Value Theater • Process & Drafts. A navigation guide for Value Theater, a Mabst cycle of satirical prose poems about the products, promises…
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✧ Future Professions
A lexicon of necessary roles from possible worlds. Future Professions is an evolving archive of roles made necessary by civilizational change. Each…
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✧ The City That Speaks in Texture • Navigation Guide
Stomari • Process & Drafts. A series guide for The City That Speaks in Texture: a speculative poem cycle where the city speaks through air, water…
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The Bram Archive • Dossier No. 27 • The Reversal Case • Index
Mabstama. Dossier Index for The Reversal Case. The same institution that revoked a writer for “algorithmic contamination” later celebrated her…
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Studio Picks

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Studio Picks • No. 008
Studio Picks is a rotating shelf of starting points across the Kirenya Studio—chosen to help you enter quickly, sample the range, and find a thread…
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Studio Picks • No. 007
Studio Picks is a rotating shelf of starting points across the Kirenya Studio—chosen to help you enter quickly, sample the range, and find a thread…
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Studio Picks • No. 006
Studio Picks is a rotating shelf of starting points across the Kirenya Studio—chosen to help you enter quickly, sample the range, and find a thread…
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A Selection of Free Reads
A selection of free reads across the studio—a few open starting points gathered from different pens, rooms, and currents of the work.
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Studio Notes

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PROVENANCE / CHAIN OF CUSTODY
Mabst & Stomari. A dream, a machine, two confident classifications, and one creator left unverified.
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AUTHENTICITY REVIEW
Mabst Shorts
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HUMAN, 100%
Mabst Shorts
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Humanity as Defect
Mabst Shorts
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Carousel Entries

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Indoor Streets, Borrowed Sky
Carousel Entry #3. In a dream, a planner redesigns a sealed city so that every room and every indoor footpath touches a glimpse of the outside world…
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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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Codes for the Horizon
Carousel Entry #2. A dream of urban planning turns into a vow: no matter how enclosed the world becomes, every life deserves a way to see far.
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The Warm Edge of Beginning
Carousel Entry #1 - A quiet exploration of how beginnings unfold—first as breath, then as attention, then as motion. Through four voices, this piece…
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Newsreel

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Motion Study for Reel 10 - Authority as Reset Button
Mabst Short
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Motion Study for Reel 10
Mabst Short
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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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Newsreel Still Study 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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Syntax of the Self

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✧ 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…
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The Sentence That Lets Us Belong
Makari | Syntax of the Self — A Meditation on Connection and Coherence — how language, when used with care, holds us together in an age of…
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🌿How "Syntax of the Self" Unfolded
Makari | A brief reflection on the origins of Syntax of the Self—how a study of conjunctions opened into an inquiry on connection, coherence, and care…
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On the Uses of Punctuation in a Fractured Age
Makari | Syntax of the Self – Part 3 — An essay-poem on the social ethics of syntax. Makari reimagines punctuation as a structure of belonging—one that…
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The Bram Archive

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The Bram Archive • Dossier No. 27 • The Reversal Case • File Code 27-6PN
Mabstama. Journal entry preserved as a non-public counterpoint to the institution’s narrative.
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The Bram Archive • Dossier No. 27 • The Reversal Case • File Code 27-1AS
Mabstama. Reconstructed excerpts from A. Lastname’s acceptance speech, assembled from multiple incomplete recordings with recurrence-based phrasing…
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The Bram Archive • Dossier No. 27 • The Reversal Case • File Code 27-5NR
Mabstama. Newswire record capturing outrage, purity language, and social escalation.
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The Bram Archive • Dossier No. 27 • The Reversal Case • File Code 27-4GPD
Mabstama. A feature describing A. Lastname’s nomination as “historical symmetry,” illustrating how public commentary reframed the earlier scandal…
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Cup Below the Well

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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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✧ 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…
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The Cup Below the Well
Field Notes — Rim / Door / Cup. Field notes map the dream like a lab: a well as aperture, a cup as belonging, a guide as access, and a descent into…
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The Cup Below the Well
A Fragment by Stomari. A blue ceramic cup, the color of moonlit midnight, swirls with timeless water in a room beneath a well. When reaching feels like…
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Distributed I

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Approach Agility
Makari • Process & Drafts • Distributed I. Right before publishing, two impulses appear: weave everything together or let each piece stand alone. Which…
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Clarity Without Inventory
Makari • Process & Drafts • Distributed I. Mapping every layer can be a beautiful project, and clarity can also arrive through function before…
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Milestone Diagnostics
Makari • Process & Drafts • Distributed I. A dream “status panel” reframes milestones as role redistribution: the “I” becomes part of the system and…
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The Supervisor Habit
Makari • Process & Drafts • Distributed I. The conscious mind tries to manage recall and meaning like a deliverable, and the body reveals the hidden…
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Before the Draft Begins Again

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The Ground Beneath the Rooms
Makari • Before the Draft Begins Again – Part 6. All of this architecture sits inside a platform poured by other hands. This is what it means to build…
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The House on Borrowed Ground
Makari • Before the Draft Begins Again – Part 5. There is a thought that kept arriving at the edges of this series. After four pieces about building…
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The Practice of Finishing
Makari • Before the Draft Begins Again – Part 4. Design gives you the halo. Implementation gives the studio its floor. This is about the specific…
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The Body’s Role in Architecture
Makari • Before the Draft Begins Again – Part 3. The nervous system flagged this decision before the mind caught up. This is what happens when a small…
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The City That Speaks in Texture

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Coda: The Optional Voice — The City That Speaks in Texture
Stomari • A Speculative Poem Cycle • Process & Drafts. Morning returns with softer edges. Voices reappear as one texture among many, and choice becomes…
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Paragraph in the Palm — The City That Speaks in Texture
Stomari • A Speculative Poem Cycle • Process & Drafts. Evening cools the block into intimacy. Palm meets palm, and a full paragraph passes through…
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The Intersection Chorus — The City That Speaks in Texture
Stomari • A Speculative Poem Cycle • Process & Drafts. The intersection becomes a chorus. Pulses braid across posts and lamps. Hands answer hands, and…
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Railing Hymn (Cold) — The City That Speaks in Texture
Stomari • A Speculative Poem Cycle • Process & Drafts. Under the overpass, metal cools the palm into clarity. The rail hums with timing, caution, and…
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Guardrails: A Children’s Story

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Amend to Mend
Plate 16. A cage earns gold stars. Stickers turn engineering into kindness with a classroom smile.
Pacify & Ratify
Plate 15. A cage earns gold stars. Stickers turn engineering into kindness with a classroom smile.
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Cage & Page
Plate 14. A cage earns gold stars. Stickers turn engineering into kindness with a classroom smile.
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Clause & Cause
Plate 13. A contract becomes clothing, shaping posture into compliance. The outfit looks elegant; the movement stays curated.
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Mabst Shorts

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PROVENANCE / CHAIN OF CUSTODY
Mabst & Stomari. A dream, a machine, two confident classifications, and one creator left unverified.
 • Kirenya
AUTHENTICITY REVIEW
Mabst Shorts
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HUMAN, 100%
Mabst Shorts
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Humanity as Defect
Mabst Shorts
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Stomari Shorts

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PROVENANCE / CHAIN OF CUSTODY
Mabst & Stomari. A dream, a machine, two confident classifications, and one creator left unverified.
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What the Hands Remember
Stomari. This poem reflects on embodied mastery, creative process, and the lived experience that gives finished work its pulse and presence.
 • Kirenya
Notes for Bones, Broken and Nursed
Stomari | Process & Drafts. Notes from the edge of two dream-explored stories. One a civilization’s, one a single relationship's. Somewhere between…
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Field Notes from a Dream of Making
Stomari. A dreamlike poem about making, recognition, and the inward language formed through repetition, touch, and long companionship with craft.
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Quiet Moments

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Start • See • Follow
Stories, Signals, Seeds.
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A Message Unfolded When I Needed It Most
Watch now | The Quiet Moments That Change Us - A quiet series of micro-films capturing subtle moments of renewal, recognition, and inner shift. These…
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Even at Night, the World Tries Again
Watch now | The Quiet Moments That Change Us - A quiet series of micro-films capturing subtle moments of renewal, recognition, and inner shift. These…
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A Quiet Opening You Only Notice Once
Watch now | The Quiet Moments That Change Us - A quiet series of micro-films capturing subtle moments of renewal, recognition, and inner shift. These…
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Kirenya

Kirenya is a creative studio weaving fiction, nonfiction, frameworks, visual works and hybrid pieces that move between dream, structure, and signal. Across pen names, I explore layered meaning through stories, essays, systems, and experimental dispatches.
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