My work is about how we look at things... small, daily, ordinary things. I am intrigued by the amount of small details, concepts, systems, ideas, images and sounds that surround our lives but are unnoticed. Looking is definitely not seeing. I am interested in the ordinary invisible presence of embedded meanings. There are things that we see, there are others we don’t and there are things that become invisible to us. Mobile Phone is one of the latter. We can’t imagine our lives without it and the traces of its usage are left everywhere. I have been researching the way they interact in our everyday lives for over 3 years. I have collected mobile phone conversations on London’s public transport, in restaurants and on the streets and have presented the results in many different formats: photography, sculpture, texts, performances, open-mic events and guerrilla interventions in galleries. The work presented here is a sample of my research. There are drawings depicting plugs, chargers, plug-extensions and cables necessary to keep mobile phones going. These drawings are like the hidden lives of mobile phones. The Lupe is a comment on how we deal with time and our busy virtual schedule. “A Century-ish Ago” shows the development of language, the way common words acquired different meanings through time. Right now, I am undergoing a photographic portrait project of people using mobile phones.
