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.
I had a delayed train. This thing was there.
#2. Fish and chips.
Dinner at Fred's, 4th of January. Yum!
#3. Fred walking ahead.
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).
Lovely idea and execution!
ReplyDeleteThanks! :-)
DeleteThat's such a cool idea! I had to clean out my Google pictures which was scary, but then I realized all of them were in my phone sd card already so really it wasn't really losing anything. This seems like a much more thoughtful way to clean it out
ReplyDeletei love that idea, also maybe a good way to get into drawing from real life when it's too nerve-wracking to draw in public :)
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, that's so true!
DeleteThis is absolutely delightful! I also love your post about junk journals. Stumbling across your blog randomly today has really brightened my morning! ❤️
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