Scales was a participatory installation which took place over the course of a weekend at the TI Music Festival, 2009. "Scales" refers to many things- the shedding of skins, layers of identity, both real and affected, scales with which we measure our experiences and the things around us- how we weigh and categorize. Most importantly, it is about the variable Human scale.
| Participants were asked to take a writing prompt and a painted scale |  |
| and to write their response to the prompt on the scale. |  |
| They then put the scale into a box labeled "Experiences". |  |
| Written-on Scales were taken from the box and put up on the wall where participants could select one written by an anonymous stranger. |  |
| Then they would place that other person's scale in the net they felt it most fit in. |  |
Nets were labeled: Body, Material, Incorporeal, Passion, Purpose, Stimulus and Connection. |
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| The nets gradually accumulated scales until the end of the second day, nearly 1000 scales later. |  |
| During this time they were open to be read, blowing in the wind. |  |
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A book of the Scales is in the works. It will show some of my favorite individual scales- joy and loss, whimsy and frustration, but mostly many facets of human experience.
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all photographs by Daniel Garcia, Copyright 2009
