Everything is hidden in Silence. Silence is hidden in everything.

By Steve Dutton 2015

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Made in collaboration with Annie Xu. A well known Chinese saying acknowledges that everything gets swallowed up by Silence. We wondered if the reverse may also be true, in that silence gets swallowed up by everything else so we reversed the Chinese text to imply this.

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We Are Only Partly Real VR Installation Shot Zones 1 2 3 Night Cycle 1751366818

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