Opacity Project

Memento Mori

The Prince

Daybreak

Utopia

Total Domination

The Grand Inquisitor

Low Tide

Discurse

Dispense

Aidez-moi

Au Revoir

Disextinctionary

The Anti-Room

Pedestrian Guidance

I am not the end

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To work and create for nothing… to know that one’s creation has no future, to see one’s work destroyed in a day while being aware that, fundamentally, this has no more importance than building for centuries— this is the difficult wisdom that absurd thought sanctions. - Albert Camus

It is important to understand that the *Opacity Project* has no relation to either the *Mendacity Project, or the Atrocity Project*, both of which receive stable, institutional funding levels and enjoy the participation of the military, the media, and in some cases entire nations. Please keep this in mind.		Preface (a negatextual introduction to opacity)

sometimes the worst thing about public art is not the art - Diogenes		Statements & Speculations

			excerpts from The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert written in chalk on a staircase.
			What we do not write for those who do exist we write for one who does not exist.
			excerpts from Gargoyles, by Thomas Bernhard written in chalk on the street.
			excerpts from Daybreak, by Friedrich Nietzsche written in chalk on a staircase.
			The Mechanism of Utopia, by E.M. Cioran written in chalk on pavement.
			an excerpt from The Origins of Totalitarianism, by Hannah Arendt written in chalk on pavement for twelve hours.
			A chapter from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, written in chalk on railway ties.
			the essay To Philosophize is to Learn How to Die by Michel de Montaigne written in chalk on rocks at low tide.
			marathon readings of entire books in unlikely locations.
			Helpful advice for those with both feet on the ground.
			individual words from an English dictionary hidden in fruit and left for insects and other animals to feed on.
			water-based ink written on rocks at low tide on beaches throughout Vancouver.
			blowing down a street near you.
			installation of *weeping stations* throughout Vancouver
			It is a concentration of dark matter. It is somewhere in Vancouver. If you can find it you are welcome to stay.


We do not live in cities, we persist in opacities


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