ONEFAVOR Project: 2022
The ONEFAVOR project is an exploration of mutual aid, currency, and community building. Ceramic tokens have been created, each worth a favor from me. The favor is being left general and nondescript on purpose, so that the favor can take the form of anything a person needs. The point is to try and engage with people directly, to help them with things that they otherwise wouldn’t or couldn’t have gotten to by themselves.
The 2022 run was of 365 tokens total, one for each day of an average year.
The favors have only 3 rules:
Nothing Illegal
Only Labor
Nothing over eight hours of work
This project is ongoing, and does not have a set end date. I’ll be documenting the favors that I do that people are comfortable with me writing about. I’ll be reflecting on what they needed, how the interaction went from my perspective, and any thoughts that came up while performing the favor.
Another classmate, Ella, called in her favor recently as well. She was looking for more specific help with the crafting of a teapot, how to throw the individual parts, attachment, relationships and ratios between the parts, and then a couple days later(cheater!) she asked for help on how to trim the thing as well.
I anticipate much of my classmates favors will fall in the ceramics field, since that is where we interact the most. Time will tell, I suppose.
