Your phone knows best, 2019
We are all trying live our best life [according to a commonly cited cliché].
The self-help industry seems in some way to have appeared as a response to a yearning for fulfilment that has become a recognisable trait of Western society.
We all want to indulge ourselves.
We all want to find ourselves.
It seems to me these two objectives are often in conflict. I have tried to express this discord by developing a ‘mock-application for iPhone’. Nowadays people use the apps on their phones to direct and control and amuse many aspects of their lives.
My app at once subtly reflects our reliance on our devices, while at once containing reminders of our own agency as individuals, that we could reclaim if only we wanted to.
Freedom is indeed a choice.
We are all trying live our best life [according to a commonly cited cliché].
The self-help industry seems in some way to have appeared as a response to a yearning for fulfilment that has become a recognisable trait of Western society.
We all want to indulge ourselves.
We all want to find ourselves.
It seems to me these two objectives are often in conflict. I have tried to express this discord by developing a ‘mock-application for iPhone’. Nowadays people use the apps on their phones to direct and control and amuse many aspects of their lives.
My app at once subtly reflects our reliance on our devices, while at once containing reminders of our own agency as individuals, that we could reclaim if only we wanted to.
Freedom is indeed a choice.