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method:easter-egg-painting-exerciseEaster egg painting exercise
A pedagogical method where students blow out eggs and paint them purely for beauty, to recover innocent making and produce beings.
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Thinkers (1)
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- Architecture student whose childhood joy in painting Easter eggs inspired Alexander's exercise on innocence.
Concepts (1)
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- InnocenceaboutThe unforced, joyful, uncontaminated state of making that allows genuine beings to arise.
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