Currently, I'm not able to work on It Has Character for more than about 5HR per week. Since I was a passenger in a collision, my plans have been set back, but I'm getting back into the spirit of my creation here. While I make paper and books, the essence of my project stems from the idea behind them, and I was reminded of this at work this morning.
I work in a hybrid model where I'm home 5 days and in office 5 days out of every two week rotation. When I came in this morning, there were various stacks on my desk because my coworkers know that I recycle and upcycle paper in the office provided that it doesn't have personal information on it. There were a bunch of old folders from claims, envelopes with used stamps, blank paper (sometimes old files have these), and dividers. I can't claim to know their minds or motivations, but they're participating in small ways towards this thing that I'm trying to build.
In our present state in late stage capitalism, more people are starting to experience the problems in the Global North. Part of adapting to uncertain circumstances involves trying to imagine different ways to exist in the world. Going back to how things used to be, in addition to being socially undesirable isn't completely ecologically viable, and so we do the work of looking forward. My conceptual inspiration for change from a position of limited power has roots in compost and malicious compliance, and I look forward to expanding on my thinking in future posts.
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