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echoing slightly, building withinstuck between,attempting to break out + finally begin.

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refract()

the anxiety within, cannot sustainbreaking through the confines,I walk with a new step.

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I long for which I don’t have,no family to call my own,no baseline to set my feet firm.

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emotional()

I don’t play well with others,sometimes I steal the spotlight,but you’ll always be happy to see me.

vary

defined as to make a partial change in : make different in some attribute or characteristic()

I’ll travel as far as I can,the ground isn’t always even, but my feet are set with rhythm.

mov

emen

t

defined as a distinct structural unit or division having its own key, rhythmic structure()

I won’t pretend that I see straight,

I don’t always know my up from down,

but I do know my case.

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although some may call me dark,I’d prefer something more individualistic like bursting with tenebrous activity.

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para-was designed by A.De Sando under the guidance of Assis-stant Professor Michael E. Kidwell for Typography 3 at Kansas City Art Institute in Kansas City, MO.

para- was inspired by the distorted+refracted images that most of us carry about ourselves+our work.

para- was but a visual of how the mind often works, filled with the emotion that we often attempt to ignore or push away.()