Rachel's Recipes

Core values to consider....

Flawed communication systems. Possible ruptures through closeness.

Code/explain

Genetic code/socialized explanations 1. Pick up your cellphone.  Count the number of calls you have made in the past day.  If the number is even, move down to option two. 

If the number is odd: nonsense mutations/stop codon: call the third person on your call list and ask them if they have ever felt like something crucial to their understanding of the world suddenly vanished without a trace.  

If the number is even: Frameshift mutation. Call the second person on your call list.  Ask them to describe a time when they felt like they had a relationship that experienced complete communication breakdown. 

2. Make an indel timeline of traumatic events that have happened to your body since your remembered beginning.  Imagine that time has compressed. Read them out loud as if they were a single long traumatic event.

(Indel: any system that contains insertions, deletions, and any combination thereof.  This remains true even if a period of several years passes between each event.)

coded behavior/rebuttal

3. Set a knife facing an apple on a stable surface where it will be undisturbed.  Set the knife so the tip of the blade is exactly two feet from the apple.  Move it closer to the apple by one eighth of an inch every day.  When you are within one inch of the apple, move the knife back three feet.  Continue process until apple has completely decomposed and knife blade has rusted off.

4.  Embroider “Te Gusta” or “Mon Ami” on a small throw pillow.  Use only pastel shades.  Set on a couch.  Make everybody who walks into your house hold it and read the phrase out loud.

Precision/bridge:
Exact physicality/physical structure
1. Self-anchored suspension/exactitude
Take everything out of your backpack.  Balance it all on top of a box of eggs.  When you succeed, take everything off.  Take one egg out of the carton.  Now balance it all on top of the egg.

2.  Clean tracelessness/moveable
Take two cinderblocks and a piece of two by four.  For one entire day, you may move only by using these objects.  Your feet can never touch the floor. Don’t avoid stairs.


Weight/Sameness

physical weight/homogenous 1. Get two cats of the most opposite size you can find.  Through incredible control of their diet/exercise, attempt to make them exactly the same weight.  

2. Take a family or group of humans or non-human animals you know well. Assign the different members of this group different "classes" based on the emotional/social equivalent to the wrestling weight classes.
3. Sit on one side of a teeter-totter on a playground.  Have somebody slowly spit into a bucket on the opposite side of the teeter-totter under the weights balance.  When you need to pee, you may add this to the weight that counters your own.   

emotional weight/twinning

4. Ask one of your friends to tell you about the saddest thing that has ever happened to them.  No matter what they say, interrupt them with "omg, the same exact thing happened to me."  Do this for as long as they will continue to talk to you. 

cartography/sameness 

5. Draw a topographical map where every line is the same thickness.  Interpret as desired. Draw a sketch of somebody hiking this mountain. 

 

Synthesis/Conflict

Biological synthesis/interpersonal conflict
1. Eat the first three plants you see after reading this.  Call your mother and tell her you ate poison and you need her to come over right now.  Call the police and tell them your mother is trying to kill you.  

total synthesis/inner person conflict
2. Eat any foods that cause high cholestrol.  Do it in excess.  Do it until you develop high cholestorol.  Attempt to lower your cholestorol through high fiber and exercise.

factors in combination/physical clash
3. Try to play chords on a piano with opposite hands while somebody stands behind you and tries to physically restrain you.