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Swath, 2007
700 hand-mounted miniature paintings in mixed media
From “The Universal Patronage Project”

The miniature paintings were created through a time and labor intensive process designed to recover the excess raw materials of our art-making. This process includes selection, smoking, purifying and ageing. In this way, certain of our daily actions shape the art in a continual work cycle of generation/ de-generation/ generation. The miniature paintings were the objects originally used for Phase I of The Universal Patronage Project in 2007. The manufacture of the miniature paintings, of which we currently have over 2000, is a prototypical example of production in the Organic Art Factory. What follows is a map of the logic used in their creation:

Hypothesis: Altering an everyday action can transform the waste of that action

Method: Action x produces amount y of waste daily. Action a produces amount b of waste daily. By combining action x with action a, the combined waste can be transformed into a tolo, (z)

Where:
x = smoking
y = used cigarette filter
a = painting
b = used sketchbooks and leftover paint
z = miniature paintings

Result: Combining the productive action of painting with the consumptive action of smoking transforms the unusable waste products of both into miniature paintings.