Dreaming

Jack Fortune

Dice, cards, tokens, and small game pieces could turn every step into another move. The problem is stopping chance from looking random.

Game-board layout study

Dice, cards, tokens, and small game pieces

Material study for Jack Fortune, showing the proposed surface materials before construction.
Nine dream-dossier material families in taped dark-paper apertures.

DREAMING / CONSTRUCTION HAS NOT BEGUN

Jack Fortune

A dossier before an object. Materials have been named. The workbench has not accepted them yet.

OBJECT RECORD

What exists, and what it does.

Dice, cards, tokens, and small game pieces could turn every step into another move. The problem is stopping chance from looking random.

Jack Fortune wears a game already in progress. The surface needs rules strong enough to make chance visible.

PHYSICAL EVIDENCE

Up close, attachment, seams, and wear become visible.

Tabletop flash with saturated game color

CONSTRUCTION RECORD

Where the surface meets the body.

Materials

Dice, cards, tokens, and small game pieces

Weight or current measure

Hard pieces will be limited by movement tests.

Construction

Test shallow pockets, stitched card fragments, and restrained clusters of hard pieces.

Wear

Hard game pieces stay away from joints until spacing is proven.

Care

Keep paper elements flat and hard pieces from striking them in storage.