The Larks and Ravens are a collaboration between two socially engaged artists and an irrational psychologist. Located in Wales and England, we normally meet once or twice a month to work together addressing socio-environmental issues.
During lockdown, we've evolved new ways of collaborating via zoom - sharing making and drawing in response to issues we're discussing. We've also made our conversations physical by exchanging our responses by mail.

Given our interest in value, money and social inequality, we've focussed on Universal Basic Income (UBI) – both its transformative possibilities and the psychological blocks to its adoption. We've generated 30 questions which we hope will trigger conversations in a future public event on UBI which we are planning.

To explore the questions more deeply, we've developed a practice of selecting one question and randomly picking a 'corresponding' household object. What happens when you put, for example, a washing up brush, a sellotape dispenser or a pair of spectacles in conversation with a question... “What is a citizen of the UK worth?”, “What would you do if you had an independent income?” or “What activities do you think are not worthwhile?”

We've found intensively studying and drawing a random household object offers a way to see each question through a new lens. This 'oblique correspondence' process has proved so rich, we plan to continue. We hope to find a way to use it in more public conversations about Universal Basic Income and its psychological challenges on unconditionality, value, citizen responsibilities and the role of work.

And next week's correspondence? - the question “Is it one's social duty to get a job?” in conversation with a tube of hand cream.

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