A collection of notes I took on my phone in 20242025
Passwords, PIN codes, national security number, text message drafts, poems, reflections, daily to do’s, recommendations, collections of quotes, emails, exchange phone numbers, lecture notes, essays, drunk thoughts, recipes, doodles, house addresses, shopping lists.
These are all things you would find if you looked inside my notes app. It is a strange place, one where some of your most private and personal information sits parallel to some of your most brainless, untranslatable thoughts. When making the project ‘you are what you eat’, photographer Mark Menjivar cited one participant likening the question “May I photograph the interior of your fridge” to asking them to pose nude for a photograph. Like fridges, our notes app can be both a private and public space. Perhaps this app might also provoke these strange emotions. How would we feel if the contents of our notes app was published to the public?
‘A collection of notes I took on my phone in 2024’ is just this, a publicised version of my notes app from 2024. Which of my emotions were provoked when doing this exercise? Well that’s none of your business, it’s private information! Right? Why not try it for your self (template in progress).