Drawing Every Picture on my Phone

There are too many images stored in my phone. This has been true for a long time, and I keep dreaming of some beautiful, immaculate, sudden way to exorcise them, to unleash them into the world and free up a big, delicious empty space in my phone.

That, clearly, is never going to happen, but I did come up with a fun way to turn this into an art project: what if I just drew them? What if I took every mundane but mysteriously undeletable image from my phone, and I drew a picture of it? That way I could collect them together, the picture and its copy, and present them, add them to a growing catalogue of phone ephemera.

These are my pictures, and I make them into new pictures, and in their copying they become displayable, twinned artefacts.

 

Here are three:

#1: A dog I saw in Edinburgh train station.

A painting of a dog looking off somewhere.A photo of a dog sitting next to a pink suitcase.

I had a delayed train. This thing was there.

 

#2. Fish and chips.

A drawing of a plate of fish and chips, with peas.A photo of a plate of fish and chips, with peas.

Dinner at Fred's, 4th of January. Yum!

 

#3. Fred walking ahead.

A pencil drawing of a man walking along a path.A photo of a man walking along a path. Snow covers some of it.

Also on the 4th. It snowed like crazy on this walk. We were buffeted. But that was long after this picture was taken.

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Perhaps soon I will draw more of the pictures on my phone. I'm posting them on Tumblr with the tag #depomp for easy cataloguing. Until then, watch out! More pictures may accumulate (scary).

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