Complete the following self-assessment to determine warranty eligibility. All fields are required.
Complete the following self-assessment to determine warranty eligibility. All fields are required.
STATUS: UNDER REVIEW
FORM INSTRUCTIONS
PRODUCTIVITY STABILITY
Measures your ability to maintain consistent output and performance. In warranty terms, this represents your value as a productive asset. Low stability suggests you may not be meeting the expected performance standards required for coverage.
Conceptually: Productivity as proof of worth. The system measures your output, not your humanity.
EMOTIONAL DURABILITY
Assesses your capacity to withstand stress, setbacks, and emotional load without malfunction. This metric evaluates whether your emotional responses fall within acceptable operational parameters. Exceeding thresholds may void warranty coverage.
Conceptually: Mental health reframed as a servicing issue. Your emotions are treated as a mechanical system that must remain within specifications.
MAINTENANCE FREQUENCY
Indicates how regularly you perform required upkeep activities: rest, therapy, social connection, self-care. Insufficient maintenance suggests user negligence rather than system failure, which typically voids warranty claims.
Conceptually: Self-care sold back as proprietary maintenance packages. Rest becomes "downtime," therapy becomes "repairs," validation becomes "premium fuel."
WARRANTY VIOLATIONS
These checkboxes document instances where you deviated from expected operation:
Unexpected emotional failure — Emotional responses that exceeded design specifications.
External conditions — Damage caused by factors outside the product itself, typically not covered.
Deviation from expectations — Operating outside prescribed societal norms voids standard coverage.
Performance decline with age — Natural wear and tear is expected, not warrantied. Aging is classified as planned obsolescence.
Preventive maintenance not performed — Failure to maintain yourself according to recommended intervals.
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This form reduces human experience to measurable metrics. Your responses determine eligibility for support that was never truly guaranteed.
TRANSLATION NOT GUARANTEED
"Lifetime not specified"
means the support you're promised isn't as open-ended as it sounds.
It lasts only while you stay useful in the way the system prefers.
"Conditions apply"
means the help you receive depends on meeting standards you didn't choose, can't see, and may not benefit from.
This artwork uses the idea of a warranty for people because that's often how support works today:
You're encouraged to be strong, productive, adaptable, resilient — but when you struggle, the burden is placed back on you.
If you're exhausted, grieving, aging, uncertain, or simply changing — things every human goes through — the response is often:
"Maintain better. Fix yourself. Try again."
This piece points to the contradiction:
We're told we are valued —
until valuing us becomes inconvenient.
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Because even here, clarity isn't a service — it's an act of resistance.