From Mierle Laderman Ukeles, on La Flor Bakery:

“I invited Vikko, the owner and creator of La Flor, an island of Mexico deliciousness sprung right under the L train in Queens, to participate with me in creating QUEENS COOKIES / SWEET SPLITS. I asked him to come up with some kind of baked goods that have the shape of ODD LOT #3. We talked a lot. I showed him pictures of #3. We walked over to ODD LOT #3 together under the L, which was quite noisy. We ended up in a long conversation about property, possessions, about dreams and ambition; and then more philosophically about having and losing. He talked about baking with his mother in the southern Mexican village where he was raised, of his dream of leaving his hometown to chase his dreams in the big city, and about how when he got here, in need of a job, he ended up back in the kitchen, baking. Only this time, he created an oasis: he built a wonderful cafe and now owns another, with perhaps more to come. All this, while we stood on a Queens street, looking at a mysterious shape floating somewhere down a driveway between buildings, then walking back to the cafe.

He suggested making the shape of #3 in stencils with powder sugar on brownies with Mexican chocolate. Seized with this idea, my two assistants and I figured out the ratio of the wacky dimensions of #3 in relation to standard cookie sheets sizes - which is pretty complicated - and then made many models and drawings and stencil patterns using this shape now fit into the size of the cookie sheet. When we returned to show it to him, he was so touched that we had run with his idea that he said he'd bake for nothing! Nothing doing, I said, we had to do this in a business-like way. They were beautiful!”