Liberty is a fellow BFA, who asked for my help preparing digital files for the laser. She made out of cardboard a maquette and then painstakingly measured and noted each piece and it’s connections. Her brother, I believe then modeled this and produced some SVG’s and some DXFs. All fine and good, except for a couple things, which are typical in my experience when people start to engage with CAM and lasers and such. I was asked to come in and babysit the Laser, load the files and materials and make sure everything was good to go. Thing is, you have to come with files that contain all the things, called nesting, so that you don’t waste materials and time. Often, this is done automatically by whatever program you are using to model everything. So what I actually ended up doing was getting all her files together, and creating all the cut files for the sculpture, so that Liberty could cut them the next day. This took around 4 hours or so, including when we initially met to go over what the plan was, up till I delivered the cut files. So, like all plans, it did not actually survive contact with the enemy, but I think we still made it work. I’ll update this post with a few images of the finished product, if Liberty says it’s alright.
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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.