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In Walk Through Walls, performance artist Marina AbramoviΔ‡ writes of an exercise where she gives her students a thousand pieces of white paper. The students write down ideas. They keep the ones they like, and trash the ones they don’t. After three months, AbramoviΔ‡ only takes ideas from the trash cans; she calls these the β€œtreasure trove” of the things her students are afraid to do.

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