Oulipo

Mal was found in the garden, unhatched, and incubated by a black chicken. She¹ came later than the rest, towards the end of the summer, once they had already fledged and left the hen house. It was clear she was a mallard, not a muscovy, and with that the decision was made. A week later she was standing in our kitchen, peeping and looking around curiously, the hen house replaced with a Japanese apartment. We nervously welcomed her, like new parents, attempting to erase the chicken imprint and raise her with an affinity towards people (or at least us).

Mal loved the camera from day one.

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1. For the first four months or so we thought she was a he, and the pronoun change took some adjustment. [↩]

Welcome to the demo page for the Oulipo WordPress theme. Oulipo is a fairly straightforward theme – clean and elegant with lovely typography – that doesn’t get in the way of your content. Oulipo takes its name from, and is entirely inspired by, the French group Ouvroir de littérature potentielle (Oulipo). The Oulipo explored the avenues by which constraints could foster creativity, and have been a constant source for me to draw upon in my various design endeavors.

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