touch screen

I made this for a class in 2021, inspired by louise bourgeois's 'ode à l'oubli/ ode to forgetting. it's a small cloth book made from old cotton sheets, with embroidered pages featuring scenes from my life. the initial aim of the work was to document some aspects of everyday life in lockdown, particularly focusing on how it was digitally mediated, with many of the pages featuring some form of technology- text messages, zoom and spotify interfaces, screenshots, etc.

I wanted to use the format of a book to create physical and interactive object that could be 'read' like a diary, but would also evoke the format of a mobile phone (the book is small enough to fit in your hand). while making this, I was very preoccupied with putting things in windows and boxes and mimicking the various digital interfaces that had been framing my life, examining the 'flatness' of screens- how work, school, socialisation, were all happening on the same textureless, digital plane, with little to distinguish them. displaying the underside of each page highlights this contrast between the 'traditional' textile medium and the digital windows being displayed, as well as acting as a map of the making process.